One found 44% better protection for the high-dose version against hospitalization for flu but not for flu or pneumonia, which goes against previous findings.
Participants with health insurance and those with more years of education were more likely to be vaccinated after receiving a clinician recommendation.
Maryland-based Zeteo Tech will receive $1 million to advance work on a novel test that can diagnose LRTIs from exhaled breath.
The recommended vaccines are against COVID-19, influenza, RSV, pneumonia, and shingles.
Among patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia in Georgia and Tennessee, 14% had pneumococcal pneumonia.
Among hospitalized pneumonia patients, screening for MRSA colonization with a nasal swab-based rapid PCR test cut duration of anti-MRSA antibiotics by 2 days.
Of the 19.9 million children who either have no vaccines or only partial DTP vaccination coverage, 55% live in 10 countries.
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.
