pneumonia

The hospital cured his pneumonia, but the bill — for an eye-popping $44 million — made him sick. Unemployed doorman Alexis Rodriguez couldn’t believe his eyes when he opened an envelope from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital last week and saw what he appeared to owe.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators have approved a vaccine for adults age 50 and older to prevent pneumococcal disease, including the most common type of pneumonia....

Singer George Michael says he is lucky to be alive after his bout of severe pneumonia, but admits he is still "very weak".

(MedPage Today) -- The use of probiotics in traumatic brain injury patients may result in a decreased infection rate, particularly for ventilator-associated pneumonia, and require fewer antibiotics, according to a single-center study.

(Lifespan) A new study from Rhode Island Hospital shows that guidelines concerning testing patients for possible community-acquired pneumonia due to Legionella may underestimate the number of cases being seen by clinicians.

The study found that if testing was only done in patients felt to be at increased risk of Legionnaires' disease based on such guidelines, more than 40 percent of Legionella cases could be missed based on this single-center study.

(MedPage Today) -- Deaths among adults hospitalized for pneumonia have declined in recent years, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

(MedPage Today) -- A four-day course of a long-acting corticosteroid speeds recovery in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- In patients with multiple trauma, treatment with hydrocortisone is associated with a reduced risk of hospital-acquired pneumonia, researchers reported.

The large international effort to measure diabetes' toll found the disease also raises the risk of dying prematurely from a host of other ailments, even breast cancer and pneumonia.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying of pneumonia each year.