More Pneumonia & Lung Infection News

• Lung Infections Cost Hospitals More Than $10B in 2006

  July 3 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, more than 1.2 million Americans -- roughly equivalent ...

• Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes Cut Down on Infections

  May 19 (HealthDay News) -- Endotracheal tubes coated with silver dramatically reduce infections from highly ...

• Study Finds Gender Disparity in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

  May 18 (HealthDay News) -- Men checking into emergency departments with pneumonia are likely to ...

• U.S. Unlikely to Meet Target for TB Elimination

  Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- It appears that the United States will fall far short ...

• Treating Childhood Pneumonia at Home Could Save Lives in Developing Countries

  Jan. 7 (HealthDay News) -- In developing countries, treating children with pneumonia at home is ...

• Parents Should Postpone Child Vaccine Booster: CDC

  Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Last week's recall of vaccines against Haemophilus influenzae (Hib) by ...

• Kids' Respiratory Virus Season Off and Running

  Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The season for outbreaks of respiratory syncytial virus -- the ...

• Pneumonia Vaccine Is Keeping Kids Healthier

  Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Among children younger than 2, receiving the pneumococcal vaccine appears ...

• New Guideline Targets Treatment of Stable COPD

  Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- A new clinical guideline for diagnosing and treating the lung ...

• Emergency Care for Heart Attacks, Pneumonia Fails to Meet Goals

  Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- As many as 22,000 preventable deaths occur each year in ...

• Zinc Helps Elderly Ward Off Pneumonia

  Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining normal zinc concentrations in the blood may help prevent ...

• Pneumonia Shot Can Save Lives

  Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia are less likely to die ...

• Newer Antibiotic Speeds TB Healing

  Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the antibiotic moxifloxacin to the standard combination of drugs ...

• TB Gene Tweak Could Bring Better Vaccines

  August 2 (HealthDay News) -- Removing a key gene from the tuberculosis bacterium may lead ...

• Steroids Won't Help Common Respiratory Infection in Infants

  July 26 (HealthDay News) -- A commonly prescribed steroid called dexamethasone is no more effective ...

• More Hospital Nurses Mean Fewer Infections

  July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer nurses at a hospital may mean more infections and ...

• Better Hospital Care Means More Lives Saved

  July 18 (HealthDay News) -- American patients are less likely to die if cared for ...

• TB Patient Has Less Dangerous Strain: CDC

  July 5 (HealthDay News) -- The tuberculosis-infected Atlanta lawyer at the center of an international ...

• Scientists Spot Antibodies That Could Fight SARS

  July 3 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of researchers has identified the first human ...