The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about pertussis, treatment for whooping cough symptoms and more.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine are ...

New Jersey officials are asking people who went to last week’s Shakira concert to monitor for measles symptoms.

Registered pharmacist and hay fever expert Allan Green said: “Allergy symptoms in babies and young children can often be ...

A person who attended a Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium on May 15 was infected with measles and may have spread the highly ...

“It was a rash that I had never seen before, which I was never expecting to have to see in my career,” said Dr. Smith, who has practised medicine ... fever, cough and runny nose – symptoms ...

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Whooping cough or pertussis gets its name from the sound people make when they are desperately trying to breathe between coughing fits. Caused by a bacterium, the infection starts out similar to a ...

After his diagnosis, the man’s treatment was adjusted to include appropriate antibiotics, specifically omadacycline and azithromycin. Within two weeks, his cough had "completely ... Birds get ...

Angela Falanga's eight-week-old daughter was hospitalized for 19 days with whooping cough and was placed on a ventilator ...