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.
In its weekly respiratory illness snapshot, the CDC upgraded the level from low to moderate.
