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Use Of Acid-Suppressive Medications Associated With Increased Risk Of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
May 26, 2009 — Hospitalized patients who receive acid-suppressive medications such as a proton-pump inhibitor have a 30 percent increased odds of developing pneumonia while in the hospital, according to a new ... > full story -
Modifiable Hip Fracture Complications Contribute To Mortality, Study Suggests
May 22, 2009 — Potentially modifiable post-fracture complications, including pneumonia and pressure ulcers, are associated with an increased risk of death among nursing home residents who have suffered a hip ... > full story -
Influenza And Bacterial Pneumonia Make For Harmful Super-Infection
March 17, 2009 — Influenza, or flu, is an unpleasant affair with fever, cough, as well as head and body ache. When this illness is further complicated by a bacterial pneumonia, a harmful super-infection develops. ... > full story -
Bacteria-Killing Enzyme Cures Mice With Fatal Pneumonia
March 2, 2009 — Before the advent of antibiotics, pneumonia claimed so many lives -- and was so feared -- that it was called the "captain of the ship of death." Now, at a time when the new antibiotics have proved ... > full story -
Long-Term Use Of Popular Inhalers Increases Risk Of Pneumonia For COPD Patients
February 9, 2009 — Newly published research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine finds that a popular class of anti-inflammatory inhalers significantly increases the risk of pneumonia in patients with ... > full story -
New Drug To Fight Pneumonia And Meningitis? Scientists Cripple Critical Pneumococcal Proteins
January 28, 2009 — Researchers have introduced a highly promising new approach for the development of drugs to treat pneumococci, which cause pneumonia and meningitis. They copied the choline architecture of the ... > full story -
Human Metapneumovirus Infection Predisposes Mice To Severe Pneumococcal Pneumonia
January 27, 2009 — A new study suggests that prior infection with human metapneumovirus or influenza A virus predisposes mice to a severe secondary bacterial infection with pneumococcal ... > full story -
Pediatric Vaccine Effectively Prevents Pneumococcal Meningitis, Study Suggests
January 14, 2009 — A standard pediatric vaccine used to prevent several common types of life-threatening infections also effectively reduced the rates of pneumococcal meningitis in children and adults, according to a ... > full story -
More Effective Treatment For Pneumonia Following Influenza Found, Study Shows
January 8, 2009 — Scientists have demonstrated a more effective treatment for bacterial pneumonia following influenza. They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria by inhibiting ... > full story -
Pneumococcal Vaccine Does Not Appear To Protect Against Pneumonia
January 5, 2009 — Commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines do not appear to be effective for preventing pneumonia, found a new study by a team of researchers from Switzerland and the United ... > full story
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