Massachusetts health officials are investigating one case of health care-associated Legionnaires' disease involving a patient at a Boston-area hospital.

Your child will need to get the Hib vaccine starting at 2 months old. Learn more about what this shot protects against and why it's so important. The Hib vaccine protects your baby from Hib disease, ...

Double pneumonia can be more severe than one-sided pneumonia depending on how much lung tissue is affected by the infection.

Expert doctors in infectious disease and lung health speak to the transmissibility of walking pneumonia and more infection ...

Gut microbiota may be the key factor explaining why certain individuals do not respond well to the pneumococcal vaccine-a bacterium that can cause various diseases, such as pneumonia.

Getting vaccinated continues to be the most effective way to prevent infection, local health experts say, as the number of confirmed measles cases grows nationwide.

Measles is unlike other childhood viruses. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia. About 1 in 1,000 patients develops ...

Pope Francis has been in hospital for more than two weeks with what some media reports are now calling “double pneumonia”.

Legionnaires’ disease is caused by Legionella bacteria occurring naturally in freshwater environments and complex air conditioning cooling systems.

DOCTORS are warning parents that ‘chickenpox parties’ are never a good idea. The gatherings – which aim to expose children to ...

The two most important measles complications to know about are pneumonia, affecting the lungs, and brain swelling known as ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14 after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...