Ramping up global efforts to defeat childhood pneumonia
By Andrea Kane CNNhealth.com Producer Last winter, I was told that my young daughter had walking pneumonia. Walking pneumonia? My mind, fueled by alarm, raced: What is walking pneumonia? (A very mild inflammation of the lungs.)... [read full story]
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