Pneumonia News

What you need to know about hospital-acquired pneumonia. HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA accounts for nearly 15% of all hospital-acquired infections.

More than 1 in 5 child deaths in low income countries are due to pneumonia. This death rate could be reduced if all affected children received effective pneumonia treatment , which includes antibiotics and oxygen therapy.

Many people who've died from swine flu also have been infected with pneumonia bacteria.

University of Oregon -- UO chemist J. Andrew BerglundEUGENE, Ore. -- -- A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to overcome the significant global problem of microbial resistance, announces that its most advanced oral antibacterial NXL103 , has started a Phase II clinical trial in adults with acute ...

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York.

They call it the forgotten disease, especially as it relates to children around the world.

Did you know that in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control reported that more people in the United States died from pneumonia than the flu? Some people may be at increased risk for pneumonia and don't understand the seriousness of the disease.

ADDRESS: Edgard Wehbe, MD, Department of Medicine, KU School of Medicine-Wichita, 1010 North Kansas, Wichita, KS 67214; e-mail edgardwehbe{at}hotmail.com . A 60 -year-old man with mild mental retardation, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and recurrent left-sided pneumonia presents with worsening shortness of breath and ...

South Korea's health authorities on Wednesday reported three more deaths from the H1N1 flu virus, raising the nation's death toll to 45 and indicating that the highly contagious disease is turning into a pandemic.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Women's Health / Gynecology Pediatrics / Children's Health To mark the first World Pneumonia Day on Monday, the WHO and UNICEF launched a $39 billion Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia aimed at preventing 5.3 million child deaths from the disease by ...

CHENNAI: The State government has proposed to include the HiB vaccine in the expanded universal immunisation programme from next year, according to V. Kanagasabai, Dean, Government Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital.

VELLORE: Child specialist and president of the Indian Association of Paediatrics, Vellore Chapter, K.V. Arulalan, explained the ways of detecting pneumonia in children at home and the ways of preventing the disease among children.

About one in five children around the world dies from pneumonia - more than from measles, malaria and HIV combined.

Asthma is a chronic conditions that leads to complications from H1N1 flu cases. It's the most common underlying condition associated with the illness.

In this factsheet: The Facts on Pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammation of the lungs that is usually caused by infection.

A vaccine targeting the rampant pneumonia haemophillus bacteria will soon be included in the country's routine immunisation programme, health experts said Monday, also stressing the need to raise awareness on the disease that annually claims lives of 400,000 children in India.

Monday, November 02, 2009 By Saher Baloch Karachi Most citizens are hesitant to get pneumonia in children treated not only due to a lack of knowledge, but critically the cost of the medicines available, Kharadar General Hospital Paediatrics Department Chief Dr Shakeel Rizvi told The News on the eve of the world's first Pneumonia Day.

Investing $39 billion in preventing and treating pneumonia, the disease that is the world's leading killer of young children, could save up to 5.3 million lives by 2015, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations children's fund said on Monday.

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