Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new version of the pneumonia vaccine that specifically targets strains that affect adults helped spur the updated ...

Pneumonia. Just seeing the word can make it feel harder to breathe. It’s a frightening illness, which is why it’s such good news that we have a pneumonia vaccine—but what are the side effects? We ...

Older adults face greater risks from COVID-19, flu and pneumonia, yet fewer are getting vaccinated against these potentially deadly respiratory diseases, according to two new health report s. The ...

Sometimes a cough is more than a cough. Pneumonia is continuing to be a deadly killer as our population ages, and a leading expert in the field isn't very encouraging about wiping it out. "I actually ...

The cause of Diane Keaton’s death was undisclosed for several days until her family released a statement Wednesday—in part to thank the public for their outpouring of love, while also revealing that ...

(WGHP) — Today, Nov. 12, is World Pneumonia Day. It’s to draw attention to a common illness that makes more than 400 million people sick every year, and while most people do recover, the disease can ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend $75-million over five years to develop a vaccine to prevent the spread of pneumonia. The money will support efforts by Path, a nonprofit group in ...

A single spritz could eventually offer simultaneous protection against several infectious diseases. Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed a new vaccine that could prevent multiple viruses at ...

For years, public health officials have been trying to dispel the myth that people who get a flu shot are more likely to get Alzheimer's disease. They are not. And now there is evidence that vaccines ...