Actor Val Kilmer, 65, died of pneumonia this week, his daughter confirmed. Dr. Marc Siegel discusses common causes and risks ...

Pneumonia is an infection of one or both lungs caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus. It causes inflammation and fluid build-up in the air sacs, or alveoli, of the lungs. Bacterial and viral ...

Before discussing pneumonia in children further, we must first know how the lungs work. In healthy lungs, oxygen enters when ...

The two most important measles complications to know about are pneumonia, affecting the lungs, and brain swelling known as encephalitis, Dr. Tony Moody, pediatric infectious disease specialist at Duke ...

In a new role for an ion transporter, Na +-K +-Cl − cotransporter-1 may regulate the lung endothelial and epithelial barriers and consequently modulate the host response to pneumonia and sepsis.

Clinically, the features of acute bacterial pneumonia present no differently among gravid and nonpregnant patients. Hopwood [8] reported that among 23 pregnant patients who developed pneumonia ...

We performed DNA sequencing and statistical analyses to see how certain bacteria might be associated with pneumonia or health outcomes. We identified one set of bacteria, including NTHi ...

focusing on gram negative bacteria like Klebsiella pneumoniae, a common source of pneumonia-initiated bacteremia. In previous work, they determined that bacteria spread in three phases ...

Pneumonia caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous infections that can occur in hospital.

The lung infection has more than 30 different causes including certain bacteria, viruses and fungi. Common symptoms of pneumonia include chest pain when breathing or coughing; fatigue; fever ...

The death of actor and leading man Val Kilmer is a stark reminder of how one of the most common lung infections in the country can turn deadly.