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COPD-related problems hard to swallow
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibit a disordered breathing-swallowing pattern that may account for their higher risk of aspiration pneumonia, according to new research from ...
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Cost-effective measures could stop child pneumonia deaths
Jun 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
UN: $39 billion needed for pneumonia
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(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.
Statins don't lower risk of pneumonia in elderly
Jun 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Popular stomach acid reducer triples risk of developing pneumonia
Sep 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
Acute respiratory disease poses significantly greater risk for black Americans
May 19, 2009 |
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Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury, or ALI, as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The study also revealed that black patients ...
Brothers in arms
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Influenza, or flu, is an unpleasant affair with fever, cough, as well as head and body ache. When this illness is further complicated by a bacterial pneumonia, a harmful super-infection develops. Until now, researchers thought ...
Bacteria co-infections common in swine flu deaths: CDC
Sep 30, 2009 |
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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.
Use of acid-suppressive medications associated with increased risk of hospital-acquired pneumonia
May 26, 2009 |
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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 ...
Study finds more effective treatment for pneumonia following influenza
Jan 08, 2009 |
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Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have demonstrated a more effective treatment for bacterial pneumonia following influenza. They found that the antibiotics clindamycin and azithromycin, which kill bacteria ...
Risk factors identified for pneumonia after heart surgery
Apr 30, 2009 |
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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 ...
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