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Fears about complications shouldn't drive antibiotic prescribing
Antibiotics are not justified to reduce the risk of complications after upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat, or ear infection, finds a study published on bmj.com today.   view more (2007-10-19)

Adherence to pneumonia treatment guidelines results in better outcomes
A carefully implemented system of pneumonia care can lead to better outcomes and fewer unnecessary hospitalizations, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published in this week's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.   view more (2005-12-20)

Heart attacks/pneumonia falls short of national goals
Emergency departments across the nation are failing to meet national goals in treating many heart attack and pneumonia patients, according to a study by Johns Hopkins researchers published in the October issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.   view more (2007-11-01)

Program reduces hospitalizations and costs for nursing home residents with pneumonia
A program that includes having chest x-rays performed in the nursing home reduced the number of nursing home residents hospitalized because of pneumonia and other lower respiratory tract infections.   view more (2006-06-07)

Atypical pathogen treatment vital in hospitalized CAP patients
Hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who received treatment regimens against atypical disease-causing pathogens reached clinical stability quicker, had fewer days of hospitalization, and had lower mortality rates as a result of their disease, according to a large new study.   view more (2007-05-15)

Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) shows that patients who go to hospitals ranked higher according to specific quality measures have a lower chance of dying than patients treated at lower-ranked hospitals.   view more (2007-07-16)

Study indicates different treatment may be needed for infection-related breathing problems
New research suggests that different treatments may be needed for chronic asthma, depending on whether it results from allergies or lung infections.   view more (2007-01-31)

Cancer Patients not getting live-saving flu and pneumonia shots
Although flu and pneumonia can be lethal for cancer patients, more than one quarter of patients undergoing radiation therapy are not complying with national guidelines to be vaccinated against these potentially life-threatening yet preventable illnesses.   view more (2007-10-29)

Chronic Illness from Faulty Friends
Immune cells can trigger severe pneumonia   view more (2004-12-15)

Bacterial pneumonia caused most deaths in 1918 influenza pandemic
The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.   view more (2008-08-20)

Gender may play role in recovery from pneumonia after ozone exposure
Does air pollution have a bigger effect on the immune system of females than males? It did among mice exposed to ozone -- a major component in air pollution that is known to negatively affect lung function -- and then infected with pneumonia, as significantly more females died from the infection... view more (2007-06-26)

Steroids aid recovery from pneumonia, UT Southwestern researchers say
Adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy might help people with pneumonia recover more quickly than with antibiotics alone, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have found.   view more (2008-10-15)

Some evidence of gender bias in intensive care
There is some evidence that intensive care is unfair and may be due to gender bias, shows research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. The research team analysed over 46,500 admissions to 91 intensive care units across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The data came from the... view more (2002-05-13)

Gene chips used to distinguish ventilator-associated pneumonia from underlying critical illness
Critically ill patients who need a ventilator to breathe face a high risk of pneumonia. The lung infection, however, is exceedingly difficult to diagnose because a patient's underlying condition often skews laboratory test results and masks pneumonia's symptoms - a reality that can delay... view more (2008-02-13)

Men at increased risk of death from pneumonia compared to women
Men who come to the hospital with pneumonia generally are sicker than women and have a higher risk of dying over the next year, despite aggressive medical care.   view more (2008-05-19)

Pakistan introduces vaccine to prevent top child killer
This month, Pakistan is introducing a new combination vaccine that will protect its children against the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and four other common childhood diseases.   view more (2008-11-03)

Virus product could kill anthrax and beat antibiotic resistance
Researchers from Rockefeller University, New York, have developed a new way of killing dangerous bacteria like the ones which cause anthrax and pneumonia, using products from a virus, according to new research presented today (Tuesday, 07 September 2004) at the Society for General Microbiology's... view more (2004-08-23)

Sepsis Could Be Underestimated In New-born Babies (p 1953)
UK authors of a research letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET suggest that the incidence of disease caused by group B streptococcal infection in babies is underestimated because the 'gold standard' methods for bacterial detection may result in falsely negative results. Around one in 1000... view more (2003-06-04)

Gender disparity in community-acquired pneumonia
When men present in emergency departments with pneumonia, they are likely to be sicker than women and have a greater risk of dying over the next year, despite the more aggressive medical care they receive.   view more (2008-05-19)

Study finds environmental tests help predict hospital-acquired Legionnaires' disease risk
A new study spearheaded by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has determined that environmental monitoring of institutional water systems can help to predict the risk of hospital-acquired Legionella pneumonia, better known as Legionnaires' disease.   view more (2007-08-23)

Risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia cut significantly
Researchers found that administering the topical antiseptic chlorhexidine to critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation greatly decreased their daily risk of acquiring deadly hospital-related ventilator-associated pneumonia.   view more (2006-06-15)

Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia
The emergency treatment of drug-resistant infections with targeted antibiotics is often delayed by the need to identify bacterial strains by growing them in culture first.   view more (2006-11-15)

Biomarker reduces length of antibiotic treatment
For hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), lower measurements of procalcitonin, a biomarker of infection, can reduce the length of antibiotic treatment by an average of seven days.   view more (2006-06-30)

Update on SARS at FEMS Congress
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome represents only one of a series of new diseases caused by organisms grouped under the general title 'emerging pathogens'. Others will also be described and discussed at the 1st FEMS Congress of European Microbiologists at Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 29 - July 3,... view more (2003-06-24)

Intensive-care patients with alcohol problems are more likely to require mechanical ventilation
More than 300,000 patients receive mechanical ventilation during intensive care per year in the United States, even though the hospital mortality rate for ventilated patients can approach 50 percent.   view more (2007-06-26)
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