Highly contagious whooping cough has struck several students at a Kentucky elementary school.

There have been five confirmed cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, so far this week at Freedom Elementary School in Shepherdsville. Bullitt County public health officials say that between vaccines and antibiotics that the chance of the disease becoming fatal has been lessened

Pediatricians are urging the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration to take a bolder step in regulating the sale of over-the-counter cold medicine for children.

Early this year, the FDA issued a Public Health Advisory for parents and caregivers not to give their children below 2 years old OTC cough and cold drugs because of the serious and potentially life-threatening side effects of these medications. The advisory includes decongestants, expectorants, antihistamines and antitussives commonly used to treat colds

Four rheumatoid arthritis drugs have received stronger warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after the drugs have been linked to deaths in 45 patients.

The FDA has received 240 reports of people taking the drugs Cimzia, Enbrel, Humira, and Remicade, which are called TNF blockers. All of then developed histoplasmosis, a fungal infection that starts as a respiratory infection and can spread throughout the body

Despite being banned by the federal health agency, there has been a continued use of over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications in children, new studies have shown.

There has been a sudden rise in the number of small children taken to the emergency room after they stop breathing or lose consciousness from consuming over-the-counter cold medications in their systems, two studies appearing in the August issue of Pediatrics say

Some 22 multi-drug-resistant and extreme-drug-resistant TB patients in a South African hospital went on a rampage Wednesday to protest prison-like conditions.

The Jose Pearson TB hospital in Port Elizabeth has beefed up its security measures after the patients, 17 men and five women aged between 18 and 42, were arrested for throwing rocks at security guards and vandalising equipment. The patients were currently housed in an isolated facility in the hospital after they were returned by court and police on Thursday for fears of their highly infectious diseases