Pneumococcal pneumonia is a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that can disrupt your life for weeks and even land you in the hospital. Medical experts want you to know that there are steps you ...

With half of hospital admissions for pneumonia affecting young and middle-aged adults, experts emphasize ...

Chief Medical Officer of Northwestern Medicine’s Northwest region of hospitals Dr. Irfan Hafiz joins Bob Sirott to talk about who should get the pneumonia vaccine, a study of the impact of the ...

Each year, seasonal flu sickens about 1 billion people worldwide and causes approximately 290,000 to 650,000 respiratory ...

Regulators cut the nursing home off from Medicare and Medicaid funding in April over substandard care and the conditions ...

Less than 1% of measles cases are deadly. But about 1 in 5 unvaccinated Americans who get measles are hospitalized, the CDC said.

It was just toward the end of October that the CDC lowered the recommendation to get that pneumococcal vaccine from 65 and older to 50 and older. Not only does it prevent pneumonia, but it can ...

The MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine is safe and 97% effective in preventing measles after two doses and provides ...

“Measles is more common in different places and exposure during travel is something we need to consider," New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said. "It’s important that New Yorkers ...

Pneumococcal species are the most common causative pathogens for pneumonia in the elderly, and the development and utilization of the pneumococcal vaccine was a major public health milestone.