Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection, that is common in all age groups and can cause mild to life-threatening illness. It is also the single largest infectious cause of death in children ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have successfully performed preclinical laboratory testing of a ...

Somalia added two vaccines to its routine immunisation programme to protect against pneumonia and diarrhoea. Manjulika Das ...

A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Since February of 2024, five children who were 8 years old or younger have died in Franklin County. Martonio Wilder, 8, died in 2024. Eva Bretz, 6, died in 2025. Darnell Taylor ...

Each year over 200 children under the age of 5 succumb to pneumonia and neonatal illnesses while least 60 children lose their lives to Rheumatic Heart Disease in Fiji. This has been highlighted by ...

Trichotillomania, or hair-pulling disorder, is a body-focused repetitive behavior (BFRB) that often begins in childhood. While it is frequently associated with older children, adolescents, and ...

The children were given a single dose of oral azithromycin or a placebo four times over two years. This reduced under-five mortality by nearly 14% overall, and by 25% for babies who were less than 5 ...

Giving an antibiotic to all children under 5 in Africa saves lives. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 08 / 240821173356.htm.

New research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) finds that pneumonia-causing bacteria ...

The U.N. says the number of children who died before the age of 5 is at an all-time low worldwide, and about half what it was in 2000. Some countries, including Ethiopia, have done even better.