Whooping cough (also called pertussis or the “100-day cough”) is a respiratory infection known for the high-pitched “whoop” ...

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that spreads through the air via the coughs or sneezes of an ...

Washington has seen whooping cough cases jump by over 400% from this time last year. Here are symptoms and vaccine info you ...

Hospitalizations from whooping cough are most common for infants younger ... infectious diseases specialist at Southern Illinois University Medicine and medical advisor to Sangamon County Health ...

The vaccine against whooping cough is widely available ... according to an entry on the disease in the National Library of Medicine, but deaths are very rare for anyone else.

BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and physician Leana Wen discuss the current state of American medicine, from vaccine ...