Following the recent diagnosis of Boris Johnson's wife with pneumonia, doctors have wanted that it is due to bacterial ...
Walking, or atypical, pneumonia, is a mild form of pneumonia that often resembles a cold. You may not have a high fever and ...
Walking pneumonia differs from other respiratory infections like flu or cold because it quickly settles in the chest and can leave people feeling short of breath. With walking pneumonia, any ...
The chest X-ray of a one-and-a-half-year-old child shows a coin in the digestive tract. Photo: Sina Weibo. A doctor in ...
Your doctor may order diagnostics such as blood tests, a chest X-ray, or a CT scan to pinpoint the type of pneumonia you have, but it’s not always possible to identify the offending germ ...
A study in The Annals of Family Medicine explored how chest X-ray results influence antibiotic initiation by general practitioners in France when managing patients with suspected pneumonia.
Respiratory virus season has arrived, and hopefully you’re up to date on vaccinations that can help prevent infectious diseases including COVID, the flu, whooping cough, and respiratory syncytial ...