Patients admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) already are seriously ill, so the last thing they need is a new infection. Unfortunately, statistics show that as many as 25 percent of all patients admitted to the ICU and placed on ventilators develop pneumonia, which can be fatal.
Get the full story...
St. Jude study success in using virus enzyme to treat mouse model of acute otitis media suggests that nasal spray could prevent both ear infection and pneumonia in people with influenza
Get the full story...
The search for a vaccine against group B streptococci Group B streptococci are one of the leading causes of infection in newborn infants, causing pneumonia, septicaemia or meningitis.
Read the full story
Over the past two weeks, the Rhode Island Department of Health and the CDC have investigated reports of pneumonia at Greenwood Elementary in Warwick; Oak Haven Elementary and Blackrock Elementary in Coventry; and the John F. Deering Middle School in West Warwick.
Read the full story
Hospital death rates can be reduced by employing more Registered Nurses and the routine use of care maps or protocols, according to a study in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Read the full story
Government leaders from Asia have pledged to boost air quality control programs in some of the most polluted cities of the world. As Chad Bouchard reports from the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, widespread urban smog threatens economic growth and is blamed for more than a half-million premature deaths each year.
Read the full story
