ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- A study suggests 13 of 1,000 hospital patients in the United States are infected or colonized with the bacterium Clostridium difficile.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel says smokers should be vaccinated against pneumococcal pneumonia.
DALLAS, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers say they've found adding corticosteroids to traditional antimicrobial therapy for pneumonia can result in quicker recovery times.
ATLANTA, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Twenty-two U.S. children died last year after contracting a rare form of pneumonia that destroys the lungs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
GHENT, Belgium, June 10 (UPI) -- Belgian scientists have isolated and named a new bacterium that is believed to also cause stomach ulcers, along with Helicobacter pylori.
SHERBROOKE, Quebec, May 28 (UPI) -- Antibiotics are used to prevent infections following surgery, but antibiotics also increase the risk of the infection C. difficile, Canadian researchers say.
GREENVILLE, N.C., April 7 (UPI) -- A North Carolina hospital says it has reduced the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used gene chip technology to identify hard-to-diagnose ventilator-linked cases of pneumonia.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first rapid blood test for potentially deadly drug-resistant staph bacterium.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved for marketing a breathing tube coated with silver to be used by patients on ventilators.
LONDON, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- Antibiotics are not justified to lower complication risk after upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat or ear infection, a British study finds.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A rapidly spreading bacterium that is resistant to common antibiotics is worrying doctors in Sweden.
HERSHEY, Pa., June 27 (UPI) -- A Penn State University College of Medicine study suggests air pollution has a more significant effect on the immune systems of females than of males.
HOUSTON, June 20 (UPI) -- Patients hospitalized with pneumonia may be at serious risk of new or worsening heart problems, found a U.S. study.
PISA, Italy, May 17 (UPI) -- Italian scientists say a bovine protein may help in the treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections, a major cause of upper gastrointestinal disorders.
