Jayne Saywell, from Portobello in Edinburgh, was scared when her 16-year-old son Tom started having coughing fits in April ... to protect the baby you’re carrying at the same time," she said.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a bacterial infection that can cause painful coughing fits and difficulty breathing. Cases ...

It's not for nothing that one of the biggest topics of conversation for new parents is about sleep, or lack thereof. If you're being kept awake at night and spend what feel like enormous chunks of the ...

Whooping cough spreads more easily when people spend a lot of time together or share breathing ... who catch whooping cough develop coughing fits, which can last weeks to months, the health ...

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

Another baby has died from ... best defence against whooping cough and it is vital that pregnant women and young infants receive their vaccines at the right time. ‘Pregnant women are offered ...

Whooping cough is surging in the United States, with cases now five times higher than they were at the same point last year, ...

Infants under 12 months and pregnant people are particularly vulnerable. A pediatric infectious disease specialist shares ...

The cough may linger for weeks or months, even after treatment with antibiotics. The coughing gets less severe and less frequent over time until it goes away. However, coughing fits may return ...

14,569 cases of whooping cough have been reported in total for 2024 so far — four times higher than the agency's reported ...

The baby proofers we spoke to told us otherwise. As Neal Onos of Safe Beginnings Childproofing said, “If [a pressure-fit gate has] been up for a long time, it might do more damage than a mounted ...

When the great ’90s New York weirdos Soul Coughing broke up in 2000, they did not leave things on good terms. Over the years, ...