Pneumonia News

The FDA has accepted for priority review a supplemental biologics license application for Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for use in infants and children aged 6 weeks to 17 years, Pfizer announced.

A new machine learning algorithm can detect whether an individual has pneumonia by recording coughs and measuring the acoustics of rooms and spaces, according to a study presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

In children with nonsevere community-acquired pneumonia, or CAP, a shorter course of antibiotic therapy appeared comparable to a longer course, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

A new breath test took less than 10 minutes to screen for ventilator-associated pneumonia, or VAP, in ICU patients, according to a study published in Talanta.

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with an estimated 1 million hospitalizations per year in the United States and is often treated with antibiotics.

Hospitalizations for influenza are the highest they have been at this time of year since 2010, the CDC reported Friday.

PHILADELPHIA — An initial double dose of pneumococcal vaccine improves immune response against pneumococcal pneumonia in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis treated with rituximab, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2022.

A surge of respiratory syncytial virus, an early start to influenza season and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have caused a “tripledemic” in the United States, overwhelming hospitals, experts said.

Hospitalized patients with advanced dementia being fed through a nasogastric tube were at a higher risk for pneumonia than those on careful hand-feeding, according to a study in The Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Hospitalization with ventilator-associated pneumonia increased 50% between 2013 and 2019, according to a study presented at CHEST Annual Meeting.