In a breakthrough study published online today in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by ...

Penicillin V was as effective as amoxicillin for treating pneumonia in primary care, with similar rates of hospitalisation for lower respiratory tract infection or all-cause mortality within 28 days ...

For the second half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th, pneumonia was a leading cause of death that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Sir William Osler – usually considered the ...

It is just as safe and effective to treat children with severe pneumonia at home as in hospitals, a new study done in Pakistan by Boston University School of Public Health researchers concluded. WHO ...

Bacterial pneumonia remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet, claiming the lives of young children and the elderly at disproportionate rates, and it is becoming harder to treat ...

Scans of the lungs of the sickest COVID-19 patients show distinctive patterns of infection, but so far those clues offer little help in predicting which patients will pull through. For now, doctors ...

Bronchitis infects the bronchial tubes, while pneumonia infects the alveoli. Bronchitis is usually viral and doesn't need antibiotics, but pneumonia may need antibiotics if bacterial. Pneumonia is ...