Runny nose and congestion were negatively associated with moderate to severe illness.
Analysis of hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia links azithromycin to lower mortality and more hospital-free days compared with doxycycline in combination with beta-lactams.
With increasing time since diagnosis, only the severe infections continued to cause symptoms.
Sleep debt was associated in a dose-dependent manner with an increased risk of the common cold, pneumonia/bronchitis, sinusitis, and gastrointestinal infection, while night work was linked only to the common cold.
The top motivator for getting vaccinated was a strong clinician recommendation.
A total of 7% of patients in the corticosteroid group died within 30 days of diagnosis, compared with 9% in the placebo group.
Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses RNA sequencing to detect bacterial pneumonia from whole blood.
The study authors say the findings suggest healthcare workers could be "unrecognized reservoirs" of pneumococcus in the population.
A study in Denmark shows that kids who have a lot of common infections early in life have a higher risk of moderate to severe infections and antibiotic use throughout childhood.
Differences were driven by improved response rates for patients with pneumonia who were treated with ceftolozane–tazobactam.
