If you or your kid has a cough that's been lingering, it could be a case of mycoplasma pneumonia. Cases are rising across the ...

An expert tells PEOPLE how to manage the 'highly infectious' atypical pneumonia, also known as 'walking pneumonia,' and ...

There is a whooping cough outbreak at the University of Cincinnati, according to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati.

Whatcom County Health and Community Services officials are warning of a rise of whooping cough, or pertussis, in the county.

Arizonans with respiratory problems this fall may want to add whooping cough to the list of possible causes. Cases in the ...

To relieve your symptoms, you can take over-the-counter medicine such as acetaminophen ... 95% of deaths associated with this infection in children less than 3 months old. Québec experts believe that ...

Thrissur: Authorities have issued a strong warning against giving cough syrup containing chlorpheniramine maleate and phenylephrine hydrochloride to children under four years. This ban has been in ...

Background: Children presenting with chronic cough are common to the primary care physicians, but data on the etiology are scant. Methods: We evaluated 40 children (age range, 5 to 12 years ...

Cough medicine, according to the CDC ... from contracting whooping cough is to be vaccinated. The CDC said young children, preteens and pregnant women should get a whooping cough vaccine, as ...

Whooping cough — a highly transmissible infection of the lungs and airways that mostly affects babies and young children — is ... at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University ...

There are two types of combination vaccines that offer protection against whooping cough, diphtheria and tetanus, according to the CDC. Children under the age of 7 receive the DTaP vaccine ...