Pneumonia News

Usual interstitial pneumonia was a common finding in lung biopsies of people evaluated for post-COVID-19 interstitial lung disease, according to data published in EClinicalMedicine.

An initiative launched in dozens of Michigan hospitals more than doubled the rate of appropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia, researchers reported.

The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in November.

Merck announced Wednesday that the FDA has accepted for priority review a supplemental biologics license application for Vaxneuvance, the company’s 15-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, for use in infants and children.

Short-term increases in ambient air pollution were associated with a rise in the incidence of pneumonia in children, according to a large, community-based study in Bangladesh.

The Healio Editors have compiled a list of the most-read news in pulmonology posted in October.

In a pooled analysis of the LEAP 1 and LEAP 2 trials, lefamulin was safe and its efficacy was comparable to that of moxifloxacin in patients with unilobar and multilobar community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

In a new study, rates of all-cause mortality in the year after hospitalization for pneumonia were high and were associated with increasing age and a worse comorbidity profile, researchers reported in Respiratory Medicine.

Critically ill patients who required mechanical ventilation and received the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG were as likely to develop ventilator-associated pneumonia as those who received placebo, a randomized clinical trial showed.

Prenatal exposure to household air pollution increased the risk for pneumonia in the first year of life, researchers reported in Chest.