Cases of “walking pneumonia” have been rising sharply in the United States since the spring, especially among young children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Q: I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about?

I’ ve been seeing a lot of news stories about whooping cough. Is there really another illness that we need worry about? What is whooping cough, and how do you get it?

It starts with typical cold symptoms. After about two weeks a person will develop a "heavy, hard cough and the classic whoop ...

Pertussis, commonly known as the whooping cough, is back big time. As of Oct. 5 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that preliminary data showed more than five times as many cases ...

Those who contract whooping cough can spread the illness once symptoms start and up until at least two ... medicine unless ...

STOCKHOLM - Two researchers working ... new way of us developing medicines and us controlling the activity of genes whose levels might be altered in diseases." Last year, the Nobel Prize in ...

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 ...

Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID ...