The Chinese Medical Association has released new guidelines in the journal Pediatric ... antibiotic use is stressed to combat resistance and improve treatment outcomes. Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia ...

More than 20% of children diagnosed with pneumonia did not receive antibiotics. Treatment failure was slightly more common in children who did not receive antibiotics vs. those who did (10.7 % vs.

The updated draft pneumonia ... of treatment is just as effective for this group, it reduces the risk of antimicrobial resistance and saves NHS resources. Professor Jonathan Benger, chief medical ...

Researchers derived pragmatic models that accurately distinguish mild, moderate and severe pneumonia in children ... Chicago and associate professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University ...

Cardiovascular death risk 1 year after pneumonia hospitalization ... to see if there is a relationship between guideline-concordant antibiotic treatment use and the risk for all-cause and ...

Data suggests that doctors have diagnosed a growing number of children in this age group with infections after they sought treatment in emergency rooms for pneumonia. Despite its name, only around ...