Tag: Pneumonia

Results of a gold-standard study published November 2 in JAMA hold promise for reducing the length of antibiotic courses for pediatric patients with pneumonia. Dr Julia Bielicki Julia Bielicki, PhD, of St George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom, the lead researcher of the CAP-IT trial, told Medscape Medical News, “The most important thing is

In a study published online February 25, 2021 in The New England Journal of Medicine, a repurposed drug used to treat arthritis did not significantly improve the outcomes of patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia. Results of the Phase III clinical trial, conducted by an international team led by senior author Atul Malhotra, MD, research chief

A rise in vaccine-resistant bacteria shows the need for a new vaccine to fight childhood empyema after a spike in hospitalizations, a new UNSW study reveals. Professor Adam Jaffe, Head of the School of Women’s and Children’s Health at UNSW Medicine & Health, said the research team's study was the first and largest of its

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a transmissible viral disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen responsible for the ongoing global pandemic. The virus was first detected in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 and to date has caused over 109 million infections worldwide. With over 2.4 million

The group led by Dr. Enrique J. Calderón – "Clinical Epidemiology and Vascular Risk" at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville – IBiS/University Hospitals Virgen del Rocío and Macarena/CSIC/University of Seville, also a member of CIBERESP, participated in a project with researchers from CIBER-BBN, in which they developed systems to detect Pneumocystis jirovecii, an atypical

Skip to: What are coronaviruses? Why are coronaviruses dangerous? SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 SARS-CoV MERS-CoV The rapid spread of the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has sparked alarm across the globe. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the condition a global pandemic, with many countries grappling with the rise of infections. The disease

Due to a large part of its population, India bears a greater burden of under-five pneumonia and diarrhea deaths than any other country, based on global child mortality data. Although India has made significant progress in ensuring that children under five years of age are protected against pneumonia and diarrhea through immunisation, the COVID-19 pandemic

Fox News Flash top headlines for August 3 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Robert Livingston, 27 of Tennessee, is returning home after battling bilateral coronavirus pneumonia in the hospital for several days. Prior to his illness, Livingston said, he was otherwise healthy; he never smoked cigarettes, nor

Fox News Flash top headlines for July 16 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Low-dose radiation therapy to the lungs has shown to speed recovery in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with pneumonia, a new study found. The research team from Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute in Georgia treated 10 patients

(HealthDay)—A negative chest radiograph (CXR) accurately excludes pneumonia in the majority of children, according to a study published in the September issue of Pediatrics. Susan C. Lipsett, M.D., from Harvard University in Boston, and colleagues evaluated the negative predictive value of CXR among 683 children (aged 3 months to 18 years) evaluated in a pediatric

An international team of scientists including the University of Adelaide has discovered a new complex carbohydrate in moss that could possibly be exploited for health or other uses. The scientists, from Australia’s ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls and University of Rhode Island, in the US, say the polysaccharide looks a bit like