The U.S. is experiencing more than four times as many whooping cough cases compared with last year — a spike that some ...

Dr. Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and mom of four, has the perfect solution to the fall and winter ...

On average, children suffer from six to eight colds every year. Colds are more common in rainy and cold weather when children ...

Whooping cough has surged to a six-year high, with 492 cases recorded so far this year – a tenfold increase compared to 48 ...

MORE than 12,000 cases of whooping cough were confirmed in England in the first seven months of the year, UK Health Security ...

Portland State was forced to cancel last Saturday's planned game with North Dakota due to a whooping cough outbreak in the ...

Pertussis cases tend to peak in the summer and fall, he said, and so it’s particularly critical to be aware of the disease now, as children ... Medicine at U.C.L.A. who has studied whooping cough.

Background: Children presenting with chronic cough are common to the primary care physicians, but data on the etiology are scant. Methods: We evaluated 40 children (age range ... (2.5%), and ...

A child may cough frequently for over an hour or have three or more coughing episodes within 24 hours. Bronchiolitis is a common viral infection in infants and children younger than 2 years old.

The "biggest numbers have been in our 10 to 19-year age group," said Dr. Yves Léger. "Those are our kids that ... Dalhousie's School of Medicine, said the rise in whooping cough around the ...

In Anchorage, only 62% of kindergarten-age kids are up to date on their whooping cough shots ... of pertussis in the U.S. during World War II, when it was a leading cause of death for infants ...