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TUESDAY, May 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- An accurate risk prediction model has been developed for children younger than 14 years with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a study ...

Double pneumonia is a respiratory infection that affects both lungs rather than one. Unlike normal pneumonia, older adults are more at risk of the condition than young people, and here’s why.

Multifocal lenses can allow less light into the eye, which can worsen the vision loss these conditions cause. In such cases, monofocal lenses may be a safer, more effective option.

Pneumonia can also affect those who have difficulty swallowing due to a stroke, dementia or other neurological condition because they're at a higher risk for food or fluid entering the lungs ...

Pneumonia is inflammation of the lungs, usually caused by a viral or bacterial infection. The pope has bilateral pneumonia, known informally as double pneumonia, and means both lungs are affected.

Pope Francis, who remains hospitalized, has bilateral pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday. The term simply means pneumonia in both lungs, said Dr. James Musser, director of the center for ...

Pneumonia, meanwhile, is a serious infection or inflammation of the lung where the air sacs fill with pus and other liquid, blocking oxygen from reaching the bloodstream. The American Lung ...

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are ...

What are the causes? Pneumonia is usually the result of a bacterial or viral infection and you can catch pneumonia from someone who already has it, as you can with the common cold.

Cases of walking pneumonia usually follow a pattern: they surge every three to seven years, likely because waves of infections help people generate antibodies against the bacteria, which provide ...