Highlights Walking pneumonia is a milder form of regular pneumonia. It can be contagious when caused by specific bacteria or viruses. Those at higher risk include the elderly, young children, and ...

India’s Ministry of Health has released new guidelines to help identify respiratory viral illness symptoms. Early recognition ...

As the mercury drops and we start reaching for our scarves and slippers, there’s another reason to brace ourselves this ...

As the chill of winter approaches, most of us are well-versed in the annual warnings about the flu and, more recently, ...

While most adults only get mild symptoms when contracting the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the same can’t be said of older adults. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control ...

NEW YORK, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Donald Trump ...

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new standards for updated COVID shots, saying they'd continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and ...

1 in 4 children had new anxiety symptoms, and 1 in 7 had new depressive symptoms, despite no prior diagnosis-a sign long COVID is triggering new mental health challenges. On average, children ...

Objective To examine the associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality in older Japanese adults. Methods A total of 1723 independent Japanese ...

A group of schoolchildren and several adults are safe after their bus caught fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains Friday morning. According to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the bus had ...