Dr. Jay Kolls was recently awarded a $7.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study immunity ...

As cold and flu season ramps up, cases of pneumonia are up too. Here are the different types of pneumonia to look out for as the winter months settle in. This chest x-ray shows more opacity next to ...

You might think a lingering cough is just a cold or seasonal flu, but it could be an early warning sign of pneumonia – a ...

A type of pneumonia infection that’s increasing in the U.S. prompted a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is a type of bacteria ...

The Accidental Infiltration of Food or Bacteria Into the Lungs Medically reviewed by Jane Kim, MD Aspiration pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by the accidental infiltration of food or other ...

Pneumonia, an infection causing inflammation of the lung tissue, can make breathing difficult and in severe cases, it can be life-threatening by cutting off your air supply. However, this common chest ...

Pneumonia is an infection of the lung that causes the air sacs within the lungs to fill with fluid and pus. This can impact the body’s ability to take in oxygen, making it difficult to breathe. The ...

Meg Oliver is a correspondent for CBS News based in New York City. Oliver is a veteran journalist with more than two decades of reporting and anchoring experience. Sara Moniuszko is a health and ...

A significant link was found between active cigarette smoking and an elevated rate of pneumonia in COPD, whereas this was not ...

Adjunctive glucocorticoids could be a low-cost intervention to reduce the high case fatality rate in sub-Saharan Africa. Adding low-dose glucocorticoids to standard care for community-acquired ...