Pneumonia News

Among patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, those with COVID-19, as compared with influenza A H1N1-related pneumonia, had different clinical manifestations of the disease and also appeared to have less severity of disease and lower adjusted mortality, researchers reported in Chest.

The FDA has requested that manufacturers of the injectable version of bacitracin withdraw their products from the market.

Reduced circulating eosinophils and chronic bronchial infection raise the risk for pneumonia in patients with COPD treated with inhaled corticosteroids, researchers reported in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

After the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program was announced in 2010 and implemented in 2012, there were decreases in readmissions and increases in observation stays and ED visits 30 days postdischarge in patients previously hospitalized for HF, acute MI or pneumonia, according to a study published in The BMJ.

Chinese health authorities have reported the emergence of an unidentified strain of pneumonia that has infected dozens of people since the middle of December.

In light of National Influenza Vaccination Week, which is taking place through Saturday, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases is encouraging all people to receive their annual influenza vaccine, with particular emphasis on the vaccine’s ability to prevent complications in people with chronic health conditions.

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Among more than 160,000 patients admitted to University of North Carolina hospitals during a recent 5-year period, non-device-associated, or ND, pneumonia was implicated in three of every four nosocomial pneumonia cases, with more than 60% occurring outside the ICU, indicating a possible need to expand infection prevention programs to include non-ventilated patients, researchers said.

A new study has identified nine specific causes of death that are related to exposure to ambient fine particulate matter air pollution.

New data suggest that methamphetamine users may be more likely to be hospitalized for pulmonary diseases such as pneumonia and acute respiratory failure.