A primary care study in France found that more than two-thirds of patients with negative chest x-rays were prescribed ...

A study in The Annals of Family Medicine explored how chest X-ray results influence antibiotic initiation by general ...

Pneumonia — an infection of one or both of your lungs — can leave you coughing, feverish and feeling miserable. And sometimes, it can land you in the hospital struggling to breathe.

Neglecting pneumonia can lead to severe complications like fluid accumulation ... Diagnosis involves clinical assessment and imaging tests, with treatment focusing on symptom management through ...

When making diagnostic decisions, radiologists and other physicians may rely too much on artificial intelligence (AI) when it points out a specific area of interest in an X-ray, according to a study ...

Speaking of struggles. Recent statistics in Ohio indicate many are struggling with walking pneumonia. Several Ohio hospitals have seen an increase in admissions and the CDC has documented a six-month ...

Dietary zinc deficiency promotes lung infection by Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria—a leading cause of ventilator-associated ...

A RECENT study reveals that cumulative doses of methylprednisolone (CMD), a commonly prescribed corticosteroid for connective tissue disease (CTD), may influence mortality risk from pneumonia, ...

Pneumonia is a lung infection and/or inflammation of the air sacs of one or both lungs. Bacteria, viruses, and fungi can ...

First observed in 2009, this day was established by the Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia, which launched the “Stop Pneumonia” initiative to prompt coordinated efforts from governments ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Tigecycline should not be used as monotherapy in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). I found this article very important because it shows that ...