The cause of the disease also determines whether pneumonia is contagious or not. The viral forms of it that are most ...

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 goal of pneumonia treatment is to cure the lung infection and prevent any complications. It’s important that people follow any treatment guidelines a healthcare professional recommends.

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 ...

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 ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its guidelines for evaluating and treating childhood obesity for the first time in 15 years, recommending early and intensive treatment — which ...

These guidelines lower the recommended age for this pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine from age 65 to 50, covering millions of currently unprotected people. Scientific American spoke with experts ...

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

"Walking pneumonia can mimic other common illnesses including cold viruses, bronchitis, and COVID-19," said Brittany Vanden Heuvel, a nurse practitioner with ThedaCare Physicians Pediatrics-Oshkosh.

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 ...