Pneumonia News

People with severe community-acquired pneumonia who were treated with hydrocortisone had a lower risk for death 28 days after diagnosis compared with those who received placebo, a phase 3 trial found.

The real-world use of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia prophylaxis in patients with systemic lupus erythematous is “much lower” than prior survey-based studies suggest, according to data published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

The lack of an established tool to predict disease severity among children with pneumonia may lead to ineffective management decisions, according to a press release from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

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.