A saliva test can more accurately indicate the severity of recurrent respiratory infections in children than the standard blood test. If saliva contains too few broadly protective antibodies, a child ...

Kids are back in school and people are back indoors as the seasons change, and that can lead to some respiratory illnesses.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Ibukun Kalu about a rise in respiratory illnesses in children across the U.S. earlier in the respiratory syncytial virus season than previous years. The United ...

Study objective-To assess the prevalence of respiratory problems, and the relation of these problems with school attendance, medicine use, and medical treatment. Design-The Child Health Monitoring ...

In a recent article published in the American Academy of Pediatrics, researchers assessed the clinical impact and epidemiology of viral co-detections in children in the United States of America (USA) ...

Despite a relatively slow start to respiratory disease season, low vaccination rates threaten that trend and the rapid rise of some illnesses is already putting children at increased risk. Overall, ...

Dr Bagwala explained that it affects mostly young children under the age of two, and said it affects at least 90 percent of kids under two at least once in their lives. She said, “The virus mostly ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WABC) -- A dramatic rise in the number of children contracting respiratory illnesses is overwhelming some Connecticut hospitals. Hospitals throughout the Northeast are dealing with an ...

Children whose parents regularly smoke or vape marijuana may experience viral respiratory infections, such as the common cold, more frequently than those whose parents do not smoke, according to a new ...