The best antibiotic to treat pneumonia will depend on several factors, such as your type of pneumonia, age, lifestyle, and medical history. Zithromax (azithromycin) is often the first-line treatment ...

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Pneumonia, a lung infection, can be severe and even deadly for people in high-risk populations, such as infants, children 2 years old or younger, adults 65 years old or older, and people with weak ...

Ontario doctors report an increase in walking pneumonia cases – especially in young patients. Over the past month, Dr. Alan Drummond, an emergency room physician and family doctor in rural eastern ...

With the government launching India’s first indigenously-developed antibiotic aimed at tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR), Nafithromycin, there is now hope for treating drug-resistant pneumonia, ...

and opportunistic infections including Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP)is the main cause. This study was to identify clinical characteristics, risk factors, and prognostic factors of PJP ...

Among them is so-called walking pneumonia, a relatively mild form of pneumonia that has been unusually common in young children this year. The reason it’s referred to as walking pneumonia is ...

Alan Drummond has never seen anything like it. Drummond has treated five or six patients with pneumonia during almost every shift he has worked in the past month, many of them children ...

There are two types of vaccines to protect against pneumococcal disease. Pneumococcal 15-Valent Conjugate Vaccine (Pneu-C-15), Vaxneuvance Pneumococcal 20-Valent Conjugate Vaccine‎ (Pneu-C-20), ...

PETALING JAYA – Pneumonia surpassed heart disease to become Malaysia’s leading cause of death in 2023, prompting urgent calls for enhanced respiratory health measures and vaccination efforts.

Walking pneumonia, a mild but infectious lung disease with many viral and bacterial causes, is hitting higher numbers across Canada and the U.S. Dr. Matthew Tenenbaum of Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph ...