Maya, a healthy 13 year-old girl, had finished soccer practice and noticed a sharp stabbing pain near her sternum. The pain was quite intense and would worsen with deep breathing. It got to the point ...

When a child complains about chest pain, it’s easy for parents to panic and assume it’s a heart problem or pneumonia. But it’s much more likely to be something less serious like costochondritis or ...

In previous blogs, I’ve discussed to the fact that NF is a highly variable condition that can manifest differently among affected individuals. For example, two people within the same family can have ...

For the 7-item history questions, responses to the questions related to cough, shortness of breath and wheezing were classified as positive if the respondent answered ‘almost every day’ or ‘several ...

Pneumonia, chest x-ray The CHEST Expert Cough Panel agreed on cough, dyspnea, pleural pain, sweating, shivers, aches, temperature of ≥38°C, tachypnea, and new and localizing chest examination signs as ...