E-cigarettes were initially thought to be a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, but a recent outbreak of serious lung illnesses and deaths linked to the nicotine delivery devices called that ...

In children, community-acquired pneumonia is a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) presentation and hospital admission. Quality primary care may prevent some of these hospital visits. Children ...

Patients with GCA or AAV were associated with an increased risk for hospitalization due to pneumonia compared with members of the general population.

An earlier case of pneumonia appears to be a surprisingly strong indicator of whether someone infected with COVID-19 faces a higher risk of severe disease and death, Harvard University researchers ...

A study led by researchers at the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that respiratory syncytial virus and other viruses appear to be ...

Hospitals could be frequently misdiagnosing pneumonia, causing patients to receive the wrong treatments and potentially become deathly ill, a new study finds. More than half the time, a pneumonia ...

Antibiotic therapy with extended anaerobic coverage (EAC) was not associated with a survival benefit in patients with community-acquired aspiration pneumonia, according to results from a retrospective ...

Adults who are admitted to the hospital are often inappropriately diagnosed with — and treated for — pneumonia, new research suggests. These misdiagnosed adults almost always receive a full course of ...

Many pneumonia etiology case-control studies exclude controls with respiratory illness from enrollment or analyses. Herein we argue that selecting controls regardless of respiratory symptoms provides ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...