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

Advice from the NHS as to what exactly that cough means, and when you should head to your GP, or even the hospital ...

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

"People have coughed so hard they've actually broken ribs with pertussis. So, definitely that's not something that we like to see." said Dr. Huse.

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

Hunter, M.D. Of all the surprising sounds that can come from a baby’s body ... In addition to cough, croup might also present with stridor (a high-pitched whistling sound when breathing in), runny ...

Texas’s highest criminal court on Wednesday declined to stop the execution next month of Robert Roberson, who was sentenced to death in 2003 for killing his 2-year-old daughter, but who has ...

At trial, doctors testified that Nikki’s death was consistent with shaken baby syndrome — in which an infant is ... Roberson had taken Nikki to the emergency room because she had been coughing, ...

An East Texas man could soon become the nation's first person killed by the state based on the controversial hypothesis.

A 4-week-old baby with a croup stopped breathing, turned blue and went floppy after being given medicine that was five times the dose it should have been. The mother was slowly using a syringe to ...

The 32-year-old singer is weeks away from welcoming a baby into the fold after her half-sister Madison De La Garza, 22, announced she is pregnant with her first child with her boyfriend Ryan Mitchell.