Pneumonia News

We are now facing a pandemic caused by an epidemiologically distinct, novel virus, the 2009 pandemic influenza A virus , against which few persons born since 1970 have antibodies.

On the busiest travel day of the year in the United States, there was unwelcome and welcome news from the US CDC.

Yesterday, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention announced an increase serious pneumococcal infections associated with H1N1 influenza around the country.

The ongoing H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be driving a recent spike in dangerous pneumonias among younger patients, a U.S. health official said Wednesday.

Those infected to date have been of Asian descent, are usually elderly , and have had > 1 underlying conditions that may predispose them to infection.

NICOLE RICHIE is back at home in Los Angeles after receiving hospital treatment for pneumonia.

RIHANNA has laughed off new rumours she's dating 90210 actor TRISTAN WILDS, insisting she "doesn't even have his number". BRITNEY SPEARS' ex-boyfriend ADNAN GHALIB has been sentenced to 45 days behind bars following his altercation with a process server earlier this year .

A Medford woman beat the odds after nearly dying from complications of the H1N1 virus and has returned home from Portland to complete her recovery.

Caption: *file photo* * RICHIE HOSPITALISED WITH PNEUMONIA Socialite Nicole Richie has been hospitalised with pneumonia.

Pamela Anderson 's infamous sex tape has come back to haunt her - thanks to Borat .

Celebrity sensation Nicole Richie checked herself into a Los Angeles hospital, where she is now receiving treatment for pneumonia, according to the Associated Press.

So maybe we're not all slackers. Maybe it's not all in our heads, as many employers, psychiatrists, friends and even family members have implied over the years.

A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on the association between antibiotics and certain birth defects may be a bit unsettling to pregnant women.

Sunday, November 15, 2009 Pneumonia is an infection of one or both lungs which is usually caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi.

When patients began arriving in Vyacheslav Bonder's intensive care unit two weeks ago, their lungs so saturated with blood that they could barely gasp, the only thing he could compare it to was a field hospital in wartime.

An investigation conducted by the FDA this summer revealed that Perry Veterinary Clinic of Perry, NY caused the animal drug sulfadimethoxine to be used in an unsafe manner, and that Perry's unsafe use of the drug caused dairy cows offered for slaughter to contain illegal drug residues in their edible tissues.

Canine influenza is a newly emerging infectious disease caused by a a oeflua virus known as H3N8.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Tauseef-ur-Rahman PESHAWAR: Another Afghan suspected of contracting swine flu virus succumbed to the fatal disease at the Hayatabad Medical Complex on Tuesday night, raising concern about the spread of the disease.

Dementia is a terminal illness. However, people with advanced dementias often languish in skilled nursing facilities, far from the ministrations of specialists.

A 24-year-old woman died of H1N1 influenza in Malappuram on Wednesday, taking the number of deaths due to the pandemic in the state to 20.