Dr. Polverino answers your most pressing questions about bronchitis, how contagious it is and when it may cause more serious ...

This inflammation results in swelling, mucus buildup, and even difficulty breathing, often accompanied by a persistent cough. Acute bronchitis is primarily caused by viruses, like those that typically ...

Read More: 6 Respiratory Illnesses That Could Mean Trouble for Your Lungs Acute bronchitis is primarily caused by viruses, ...

Bronchitis and pneumonia can cause similar symptoms. But while bronchitis is an infection of the bronchial tubes, pneumonia is an infection in the alveoli.

The Mountain fire, which has burned over 14,500 acres and dozens of homes in Ventura County as of Thursday, Nov. 7, has ...

The percentage of children ages 2-4 diagnosed with a respiratory illness-bacteria grew from 1% to 7.2% between March 31 and ...

A research team led by the Keck School of Medicine of USC has shown that exposure to air pollution during childhood is directly associated with bronchitis symptoms as an adult. A range of ...

MercyOne and Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines have both seen an increase in pediatric walking pneumonia infections.

How do you tell if it’s pneumonia or bronchitis? Both pneumonia and bronchitis can cause a cough, chest discomfort, and trouble breathing. Pneumonia generally causes more severe illness than ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding the alarm over increased cases of lung infections in the U.S., ...

Bacterial infections causing pneumonia began increasing in the United States in late spring and have remained high, according ...

The artist’s large abstract canvases are well worth seeing in person, with their vivid, startling and nuanced colors and subjects that are the stuff of dreams. An installation view of “Hilma af Klint” ...