Each year, about 1.5 million adults in the United States are diagnosed with pneumonia. Around 1 million of those people are admitted to the hospital, and another 50,000 die from pneumonia or its ...

Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their ...

Penicillin resistance has dramatically decreased among nonmeningeal isolates due to the changes in resistance breakpoints, although resistance to other β-lactams such as cefuroxime has increased.

Clinically, the features of acute bacterial pneumonia present no differently among gravid and nonpregnant patients. Hopwood [8] reported that among 23 pregnant patients who developed pneumonia ...

Yes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does indeed recommend the “pneumococcal vaccines” for pneumonia for adults age 65 and older. They’re also recommended for younger people ...

2024). Since 1940s, antimicrobial medicines have been utilized to treat UTI. The first-line treatment with nitrofurantoin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, fosfomycin trometamol, β-lactam medicines, and ...

When you use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine to treat sleep apnea, there's a potential risk of infection, including sinus infections and pneumonia. Thankfully this risk is ...