Winter is coming, and along with it, doctors are warning parents of newborns to protect the babies as they may grapple with the many illnesses that circulate at high levels when the temperatures go ...

It’s highly infectious and definitely not a welcome holiday guest. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is on the rise with outbreaks across the country, leaving some parents of infants wondering ...

Roseland Community Hospital will stop delivering babies on Oct. 31, adding to South Side maternity closures. Its OB clinic will stay open. LA County issued an extreme heat warning for Oct. 2 to 8, ...

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a bacterial respiratory infection. Initial symptoms resemble a cold but progress to intense coughing fits that can last for weeks. If infected, young babies are at ...

(CNN) — For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nashville doctors are growing increasingly concerned as pertussis, or whooping cough, surges nationwide, with recent infant deaths ...

Learn more about whooping cough and how a decline in vaccination rates may be contributing to a spike in cases. Whooping cough (pertussis) is on the rise, and medical experts are linking the surge to ...

Published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the study found that ​unvaccinated children had ...