Pneumonia News

MANSFIELD -- Gerald E. 'Tip' Leiter, 87, died Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at MedCentral/Mansfield Hospital.

For the third straight time, Desert Regional Medical Center reported 'significantly higher' percentages of community-acquired pneumonia deaths than other California hospitals.

More than 1.2 million Americans - roughly equivalent to the population of Dallas - were hospitalized for pneumonia in 2006, making this lung infection the most common reason for admission to the hospital other ...

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In 2005, new guidelines were released to manage and prevent hospital-acquired pneumonia.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals announced that FDA has issued an approvable letter for the first-in-class antibiotic TYGACIL for the treatment of adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia .

Acting Medical Chief of Staff Dr Neil Peters says the staff at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex , Mt Hope, did everything in their power to save baby Omarion Frederick's life.

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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth , announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an approvable letter for the first-in-class antibiotic TYGACIL for the treatment of adult ...

Moxifloxacin is a respiratory fluoroquinolone with a community acquired pneumonia indication.

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On January 25, 2007, a 31-year-old man with CF was admitted to our institution in Marseille, France, for lung transplantation.

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“Our study showed that men were more likely to die up to a year after pneumonia, despite adjusting for health behaviors and chronic conditions. Further, our findings indicate this may be linked to differences in immune response.”

A University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study of nearly 2,220 pneumonia patients finds that men who come to the hospital generally are sicker than women, and have a 30 percent higher risk of dying over ... via People's Daily Online

“We now have a tool for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia, which is effective in preventing infections from highly resistant bacteria.”

Endotracheal tubes coated with silver dramatically reduce infections from highly resistant bacteria, researchers report. via HON

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“The gender disparity on aggressiveness of hospital care is appropriate, given the fact that men tended to be significantly sicker than women”

Men checking into emergency departments with pneumonia are likely to be sicker than women with the same condition and have a greater risk of dying within a year, despite receiving more aggressive medical care, ... via HON