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Male1: Sometimes kids get a fever and they are six or seven months old, they have rapid breathing and they go to the ER and they are found to have pn...
Male Speaker: One of the biggest concerns once the kid starts coughing they take a chest X-ray and they see a pneumonia. First of all what does the w...
Male: One of the biggest concerns on why kids starts coughing, they take a chest X-ray and they see a pneumonia. First of all what does the word pneu...
Male Speaker: Each year 36,000 people die from influenza. And another 40,000 die from Pneumococcal disease. But today vaccines can prevent many of th...
Teresa: Hi! My name is Teresa and I'm from Washington D.C. My question is, is pneumonia contagious? Gloria Trujillo: Teresa, pneumonia is contagious....
Female Speaker: Cold and flu season. Michelle Taylor knows the symptoms well. Her daughter Ashley is among the millions of kids battling with cold. M...
Male Speaker: Doctor Marcus, there is a term we use in medicine called the 100 day cough, whooping cough. Is that on the rise, decline; we vaccinate ...
Male: Doctor Marcus, is the term we use in medicine called the 100 day cough, whooping cough, is that otherwise decline, we vaccinate kids for it so,...
Interviewer: New Jersey just passed the law to mandate pneumococcal coverage for kids in school. Is that a good idea? Interviewee: Well, again every ...
Male Speaker: Deaths from pneumonia plunge when antibiotics first came on the scene, but today some of the germs that cause the lung infection are fi...
Female Speaker: Elizabeth is the picture of health. Just a few months before this, she was hospitalized with a collapsed lung, complications of pneum...
Pandemic Alert Levels were also is a confusing phenomenon. The Pandemic Alert Levels based on the World Health Organization are based on the spread o...
Pneumonia is the result of the bodys reaction to respiratory infections caused by bacteria, viruses, mycoplasma, and other pathogens. The infection c...
Female: When we are sick, we usually get better with rest and time, but sometimes we need some help from the doctor to get well. Dr. Mom, a physician...
Gabrielle recalls how Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatments were successfully used treat her mother with pneumonia.
The Effects of Pulmonary Fibrosis - Dyane's Story Hi, I am Dyane. Eight years ago I was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. Most people, when they loo...
James King: It's a very potent virus and it affects many, many people each year, up to 20-50% of children will get the flu each year and 10-25% of ad...
Male: A lot of people think, my kids started asthmatic because he does wheeze but he coughs but isnt coughing a criteria that I can control? Dr. Marc...
Hi, I am Marcy from the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Center at brainandspinalcord.org. Today, I will be bringing you some basic facts on spinal cord ...
Female Speaker: Varicella zoster a name from a sci-fi film? No, the medical term for chickenpox. 90% of young adults have had it. Fortunately, there'...
When people are tired, your first thought is why I havent got enough got sleep and in most cases thats true. Your ran down, your raising after the ki...
Male1: Doctor, a very common question to pediatricians why a little baby has a fever. Is fever a disease? Male2: Fever is not a disease. Fever is a m...
What You Should Know About Pulmonary Fibrosis It takes your breath away. Its fatal. Jerry Lewis has it. He has lived longer than anyone. We have trie...
Juli Auclair: Hi everybody! As a parent, you'll do just about anything to help your child feel better when she's sick. But, sometimes, antibiotics ar...
Dr. Barnott: I am Dr. Barnott. Bronchitis is one of the more common serious ailments to receive during cold and flu season and it comes on just as yo...
Female Speaker: Here at New York's Central Park Wildlife Center, kids are taught about the unique ways in which animals have adapted and evolved to s...
What Sickle Cell Disease Is We actually have three children, two boys and a girl. My two boys are the ones that have been diagnosed with Sickle Cell ...
Jennifer Whitney: Breathless, could you imagine not being able to breathe. I'm Jennifer Whitney, for the next half hour we'll explore the growing epi...
Male Speaker: If someone got flu, got very sick and died, what would they die from? Dr. Michael Marcus: Most of the time people who get the flu who d...
George: Hi! I am George from Clearwater, Florida. Id like to know what the expression means Walking Pneumonia? Dr. Melissa McNeil: George, Walking Pn...
Male1: There is a disease called sickle-cell anemia? Male2: Yes, that is actually a disease, another genetic disorder where the hemoglobin is affecte...
Male: We look at two different types of medicine. Things that you detect relieve the attack and things to prevent the attack and controlled.- and wha...
Testing for Ongoing Respiratory Symptoms Yazz: I always have bronchitis I'm getting sick about two to three times sometimes even four times a year. I...
Todd: My name is Todd from Miami Florida. I want to know, if you have COPD and you stop smoking, will the lungs repair itself? Robert Wise: Well Todd...
Learn about Hay Fever, Herbal Medicine and Honey Host: Spring is in the air. The flowers are blossoming. Its a sensational riot of color but for some...
Dealing with Lung Cancer - Melissa's Story Michelle King Robson: Its my honor to introduce Melissa Waller to you today who is a patient advocate like...
Male Speaker 1: If someone's got flu and died. What would they die from? Male Speaker 2: Most of the time people who get the flu who die, die from a ...
Male: You mentioned in asthma a combination, you see ads all over the place, there is this drug called Advair, which I particularly dont use but it i...
Male: Is there anyway, just looking at an X-ray, you could be 100% sure it is bacterial or viral? Dr. Marcus: It has been shown through several very ...
Why Joan Made an Appointment with a Pulmonary Specialist My name is Joan and I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. It was three years a...
Certain group for us to identify and could grab however is a relatively new group in the populations thinking and thats the group of women who are pr...
Dr. Susan Sharma: This is insidermedicine in 60. From Atlanta, an aggressive and sometimes lethal strain of the cold virus is emerging. The virus AD1...
Male: In the treatment of asthma, we try to keep the kid controlled so they dont have to end up in the emergency room or doctor visits unnecessarily....
The Dangers of Influenza Ray: I am Ray. I'm from Smithtown New York and my question is why is it that you can't have surgery if you have a cold or fl...
Host: A lot of people think, my kid has got asthma because he does wheeze, but he coughs. But isnt coughing a criteria saying he is not getting contr...
Jennifer Matthews: Lonnie and Susan Larson know, life can change in an instant. Theirs did when Susan was diagnosed with a fatal disease known as ALS...
This is Insidermedicine In 60. From Atlanta. According to research in the journal Pediatrics, the chickenpox vaccine introduced in 1995 has been a re...
Dr. Ludovico Guarini: Newborn screening a drop of blood is obtained from the newborn to check for a number of genetic disorders and one of the geneti...
Male Speaker: We discuss the combination of inhalers about a year ago and there was a new inhaler called Symbicort. You have a lot of experience usin...
Male1: Sometimes, a baby is born and maybe got an early pneumonia or something or bubbling of the mouth and it could be a thing called the TE fistula...
Pulmonary Fibrosis Medical Side Effects - Dyane's Story Mine is connected to a mixed connective tissue disease. I have had problem with joint pain my...
Dr. Vicencio on Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis Male: If so we had cystic fibrosis you have probably three ways to look at it. Lung-GI combined, lung-n...
What Are The Treatments For Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)? Dr. David Sanderson: The treatment for managing chronic obstructive pulmona...
Male Speaker: Is it dangerous to smoke around children? Eletta Hansen: Absolutely, because children's bodies are still developing. They are particula...
Female Speaker: The American Heart Association states that over 700,000 people suffer a new or recurring stoke each year in the United States alone. ...
Sam Norman: Well, this time of the year that every toddler and baby seems to have a constant running nose and a whole catalog of other ailments. Doct...
Shenina West: Hello and welcome to Mom Lounge TV. I am your host Shenina West, and today I am pleased to announce Dr. Lauren Feder as our guest. She ...
Male Speaker: Having been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis years ago, that the kid was only going to live maybe to 10, 12 years, today we expect them t...
