Does your child have strep throat, or is it just a common cold? It's challenging but important for parents to understand the differences in throat infections in kids. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, ...

Providers at UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics are seeing viral upper respiratory infections this week. WellSpan Pediatric ...

Several children’s hospitals in the U.S. have detected increases in invasive group A strep infections, a severe and sometimes life-threatening illness that occurs when bacteria spreads to areas of the ...

Strep throat is extremely common among school age children and adolescents, but may occur at any age. Transmission of strep throat, caused by Group A streptococcus bacteria, usually happens after ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics reports the flu, strep throat and hand, foot and mouth this week. At Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, pediatricians continue to see a lot of colds and upper ...

Strep throat is a bacterial infection that can cause sudden, severe sore throat and fever, especially in school-age children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday alerted the medical community to an increase in pediatric cases of invasive group A strep infections. Group A streptococci are the same ...

Scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to a bacterial infection, a vital breakthrough which could help develop vaccines to save up to half a million lives globally each ...

BOSTON - A Massachusetts mother is warning other parents about the respiratory risks this season as her young son has been hospitalized with three illnesses at once. As Mindy Crumbaker, of North ...

Strep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of bacteria can also cause more serious illnesses—even flesh-eating infections.

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in cases of viral upper respiratory infections and allergies. Pediatricians at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are seeing flu, viral ...