ALLMedicine™ Pneumonia Center

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Streptococcus pneumoniae remains a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia despite the widespread use of vaccines. While vaccines are effective at reducing the incidence of most vaccine-included serotypes, a rise in infection due to non-vaccine serot...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Pharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and clinically relevant symptom associated with poor nutrition intake, reduced quality of life, and aspiration pneumonia. Despite this, effective behavioral treatment approaches are rare...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Antibiotic resistance is a daunting challenge in modern medicine, and novel approaches that minimize the emergence of resistant pathogens are desperately needed. Antimicrobial peptides are newer therapeutics that attempt to do this; however, they ...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - During the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), many critically ill patients died of severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), or multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. To date, no specific tr...

Mar 1st, 2021 - Aspiration pneumonia (AP), inflammation of the lung parenchyma initiated by aspirated microorganisms into the lower airways from proximal sites, including the oral cavity, is prevalent in, and problematic for, the elderly, especially those in inst...

Dec 22nd, 2020 - This clinical policy from the American College of Emergency Physicians is a revision of the 2009 "Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Community-Acquired Pneumonia." A wri...

Sep 5th, 2020 - The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of a rapidly spreading illness, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affecting more than seventeen million people around the world. Diagnosis and treatment guideli...

Jun 8th, 2020 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory tract infection caused by a novel human coronavirus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, leads to a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic cases to pat...

May 17th, 2020 - On 31st December 2019, China notified the World Health Organization of an outbreak of atypical pneumonia from patients at a local seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei, China, responsible for a new coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Cor...

May 7th, 2020 - Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.|2020|Metlay JP,Waterer GW,|epidemiology,therapy,epidemiology,therapy,epidemiology,epidemiology,microbiology,therapy,epidemiology,

Mar 30th, 2021 - Fluconazole tablets USP are indicated for the treatment of: 1.Vaginal candidiasis (vaginal yeast infections due to Candida). 2.Oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis. In open noncomparative studies of relatively small numbers of patients, flucon...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Streptococcus pneumoniae remains a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia despite the widespread use of vaccines. While vaccines are effective at reducing the incidence of most vaccine-included serotypes, a rise in infection due to non-vaccine serot...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Pharyngeal dysphagia in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and clinically relevant symptom associated with poor nutrition intake, reduced quality of life, and aspiration pneumonia. Despite this, effective behavioral treatment approaches are rare...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - Antibiotic resistance is a daunting challenge in modern medicine, and novel approaches that minimize the emergence of resistant pathogens are desperately needed. Antimicrobial peptides are newer therapeutics that attempt to do this; however, they ...

Mar 2nd, 2021 - During the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), many critically ill patients died of severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), or multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. To date, no specific tr...

Feb 28th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older patients who have moderate or severe dysphagia, or difficulty with swallowing, could benefit from using water jelly after meals to prevent aspiration issues, according to new findings from Japan. Water jelly could...

Feb 25th, 2021 - FRANKFURT (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline will extend a trial testing an experimental rheumatoid arthritis drug on patients suffering from pneumonia related to COVID-19 to focus on the elderly as it seeks to firm up encouraging findings so far. A tria...

Feb 24th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has "inadequate" discriminant accuracy for ventilator triage of patients with COVID-19, clinicians caution. "Although we all wish for an objective tool that would tak...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - These are the UK coronavirus stories you need to know about today. "We vaccinate against flu, we vaccinate against pneumococcal pneumonia, and still there are cases and there are deaths. And I think people need to see it in that way, not to see it...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In December 2019, a cluster of cases of what was first identified as a "mysterious pneumonia" was reported in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. W...