Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children, based on evidence from a study performed in 73 emergency departments (EDs) in 14 ...

Children hospitalized for pneumonia have similar outcomes, including length of stay and costs, regardless of whether they are treated with "big gun" antibiotics such as ceftriaxone or cefotaxime or ...

Pneumonia is an inflammation of one or both lungs, typically due to a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. With pneumonia, the tiny air sacs inside the lungs fill with fluid or pus, leading to ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can range from mild to so serious that you have to go to the hospital. It happens when an infection causes air sacs in your lungs (the alveoli) and tubes in your ...

A combination of two antibiotics is often prescribed to treat community-acquired pneumonia in children but a JAMA Pediatrics study is now showing that using just one of the two has the same benefit to ...

Diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia in children usually involves x-rays, despite recommendations to limit their use by professional societies. In efforts to reduce radiation exposure from x-rays ...

WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing adenovirus and rhinovirus, which is the cause of the common cold. “Children are presenting with fevers, vomiting, diarrhea and ...

An Ohio county is experiencing a pediatric outbreak of pneumonia, including a number of cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, the illness that has driven recent outbreaks among children in Denmark and China.