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(AP) -- As Congress gets closer to a final health care bill, many Americans want to know: What's in it for me? http://www.physorg.com/news180507778.html Medicine & Health Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:04:17 EST news180507778 (AP) -- Thousands of Army recruits in training must line up at least once more before heading home for the holidays, this time for mass inoculations by the hundreds against swine flu. http://www.physorg.com/news179768184.html Medicine & Health Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:50:05 EST news179768184 Doctors may soon be able to quickly and accurately diagnose the cause of pneumonia-like symptoms by examining the chemicals found in a patient's urine, suggests a new study led by UC Davis biochemist Carolyn Slupsky. http://www.physorg.com/news179573450.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:40:03 EST news179573450 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, an indication that they have received inadequate care for the underlying conditions in the years leading up to their hospitalization. The study appears online this week and will be published in the January issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news178912231.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:50:57 EST news178912231 Influenza, particularly H1N1, has understandably captured the attention of public health officials, the media and the public. However, an analysis from Children's Hospital Boston, based on patients seen in its emergency department (ED) during several recent flu seasons, shows that another virus - respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- takes a substantially greater disease toll among young children than does seasonal flu. http://www.physorg.com/news178209160.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:33:27 EST news178209160 (AP) -- Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. http://www.physorg.com/news177919877.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:50:03 EST news177919877 (AP) -- Federal health officials on Monday questioned whether to approve an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine for children, despite company studies that failed to meet certain goals. http://www.physorg.com/news177616461.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:55:07 EST news177616461 Almost a third of the children under age five who die each year could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, bed nets and basic maternal and newborn care, leading aid agency World Vision said today. Currently, 8.8 million children a year die before age five, most of preventable causes. http://www.physorg.com/news177597101.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:04 EST news177597101 (AP) -- Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu - about four times the estimate they've been using. http://www.physorg.com/news177186728.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:50:01 EST news177186728 (AP) -- To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years. http://www.physorg.com/news176353905.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:40:01 EST news176353905 As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu -antioxidants. In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal they show that antioxidants -the same substances found in plant-based foods -might hold the key in preventing the flu virus from wreaking havoc on our lungs. http://www.physorg.com/news176042573.html Biology Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:43:55 EST news176042573 An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher rate of death than those without dementia. The three-pronged study, which analyzed geographic and demographic patterns of P&I and the relationship between P&I and health care accessibility, was published online in advance of print in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. http://www.physorg.com/news175873717.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:03 EST news175873717 (PhysOrg.com) -- Medical clinics the world over could benefit from new software* created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where a team of scientists has found a way to improve the efficiency of a pneumonia vaccine testing method developed at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). http://www.physorg.com/news175281412.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:17:23 EST news175281412 (AP) -- As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks. http://www.physorg.com/news174916185.html Medicine & Health Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:14:08 EST news174916185 Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news173560770.html Medicine & Health Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:50:02 EST news173560770 A popular stomach-acid reducer used to prevent stress ulcers in critically ill patients needing breathing machine support increases the risk of those patients contracting pneumonia threefold, according to researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news172145946.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:30:01 EST news172145946 (AP) -- The U.N. unveiled a multimillion dollar strategy a dozen years ago to save children worldwide, but a new study has found the program had surprisingly little effect in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries. http://www.physorg.com/news168240841.html Medicine & Health Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:50:02 EST news168240841 (PhysOrg.com) -- Infections of wounds, pneumonia, etc. in hospitals in particular are often caused by bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Once they reach a certain density, colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa produce virulence factors and can enter into a slimy state, a biofilm, which prevents antibiotics from penetrating. The process of quorum sensing, which cells use to `sense` cell density, is triggered when the concentration of certain signaling compounds generated by the bacteria reaches a threshold level. http://www.physorg.com/news166425730.html Chemistry Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:46:13 EST news166425730 Infants who received two or three primary doses of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7) both had a decreased rate of carrying pneumococcal microorganisms that can cause pneumonia and other infections, compared to infants who were not vaccinated, according to a study in the July 8 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news166205497.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:14:58 EST news166205497 Taking popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor (atorvastatin), does not lower the risk of pneumonia. That's the new finding from a study of more than 3,000 Group Health patients published online on June 16 in advance of the British Medical Journal's June 20 print issue. http://www.physorg.com/news164423744.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:00:01 EST news164423744 Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunization coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that these strategies combined could reduce total child mortality by 17 percent and could reduce pneumonia deaths by more than 90 percent. http://www.physorg.com/news163077690.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:22:01 EST news163077690 Hospitalized patients who receive acid-suppressive medications such as a proton-pump inhibitor have a 30 percent increased odds of developing pneumonia while in the hospital, according to a study in the May 27 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news162579025.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 May 2009 17:54:22 EST news162579025 (AP) -- In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients, no matter how mild their symptoms. Not so in Mexico, where the health secretary encouraged tourists to come relax in their favorite vacation spots despite a growing swine flu caseload. http://www.physorg.com/news161437473.html Medicine & Health Wed, 13 May 2009 12:45:03 EST news161437473 (AP) -- A Washington state man with underlying heart conditions became the third person infected with swine flu to die in the U.S., health officials said Saturday, while Costa Rica reported the first swine flu death outside North America. http://www.physorg.com/news161141941.html Medicine & Health Sun, 10 May 2009 02:40:24 EST news161141941 Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the main cause of nosocomial infection in patients undergoing major heart surgery. An international study of 25 hospitals from 8 European countries, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care, has confirmed the degree of danger posed by VAP and identified the main risk factors. http://www.physorg.com/news160275231.html Medicine & Health Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:54:09 EST news160275231 (AP) -- Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others. http://www.physorg.com/news160070739.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:06:27 EST news160070739 (AP) -- Why has the swine flu engulfing Mexico been deadly there, but not in the United States? http://www.physorg.com/news159946708.html Medicine & Health Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:39:10 EST news159946708 (AP) -- Treating African children at home for malaria doesn't help in cities because most fevers aren't actually caused by malaria, a new study said Tuesday. http://www.physorg.com/news158908029.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:07:33 EST news158908029 When a patient is discharged from the hospital, just about the last thing he or she wants is to be back in again within the next month. But a new national study has found that's exactly what happens to one out of five Medicare patients, costing billions in health care and suffering for patients. http://www.physorg.com/news157826911.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:49:06 EST news157826911 (AP) -- Drugmaker Wyeth on Tuesday sought U.S. approval to sell a new version of its blockbuster infant vaccine Prevnar that protects against more strains of a bacteria that causes pneumonia and other diseases. http://www.physorg.com/news157728514.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:29:59 EST news157728514