The distinctive sound of your cough carries far more information than you might imagine, potentially serving as a powerful diagnostic tool that could revolutionize how pneumonia gets detected and ...

Pneumonia remains highly unpredictable because patients with the same diagnosis and treatment often experience drastically different outcomes, and clinicians lack clear insight into why. Researchers ...

Northwestern University scientists have potentially uncovered a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In a new study, scientists found the lungs’ own microbial community, or microbiome, ...

Make sure that the listening area is quiet, and importantly, do not listen through the patient's clothing. Warm your stethoscope either by carrying it in your pants pocket or by vigorously rubbing it.

Telling pneumonia and lung cancer apart can be difficult because both conditions target the lungs and often produce similar symptoms, such as persistent cough, chest pain, and fatigue. Despite these ...

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Northwestern University scientists have potentially uncovered a previously unknown, hidden player in pneumonia. In a new study, scientists found the lungs' own microbial community, or microbiome, ...