A University of Eastern Finland study showed that low serum vitamin D levels are a risk factor for pneumonia. The risk of contracting pneumonia was more than 2.5 times greater in subjects with the lowest vitamin D levels than in subjects with high vitamin D levels. The results were published in...
Jennifer Lawrence "Is Really Sick" With "Pneumonia" Says Silver Linings Playbook Cost
Golden Globes winner Jennifer Lawrence is apparently not feeling good as gold these days, according to her Silver Linings Playbook costar Jacki Weaver, who accepted an Australian Academy of Cinema...
Statins may prevent pneumonia, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Researchers from Israel and the United States analyzed data from the JUPITER trial, a randomized, double-blind trial with placebo control groups conducted at 1315 sites in 26 countries to look...
Apparently the medicine said you didn't need to eat before so she didn't. This was like four hours ago. She's having really bad cramps, and has eaten. She called the doctor and they just said she was supposed to eat before taking it. What should she do?
Sixteen more developing nations will receive funding to protect their children from rotavirus and pneumococcal infections, major causes of childhood deaths globally from severe diarrhea and pneumonia, the GAVI Alliance announced today. Pneumonia and diarrhea are the two leading causes of...
Immunizations, including a yearly flu vaccine, are the best way to protect children from life-threatening pneumonia, according to new guidelines from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The guidelines, which are the first on...
University of Georgia researchers have developed a technique that can diagnose a common type of pneumonia within minutes, potentially replacing existing tests that can take several days for results. The researchers, whose findings are detailed online in the journal PLoS ONE, detected Mycoplasma...
cannot get him to a vet? He hasn't been eating or drinking for about a day but I forced some water down, right now he's bairly moving and he's having alot of trouble breathing is there anything I can do please respond asap
Men 45 years or older who received pneumococcal vaccine were not less likely to have a heart attack or stroke compared to men who did not receive the vaccine, according to a study in the May 5 issue of JAMA. Hung Fu Tseng, Ph.D...
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Older adults with long-term exposure to higher levels of pollution are at higher risk for hospitalization for pneumonia, according to researchers in Canada. "Our study found that among older individuals, long-term exposure to traffic pollution independently increased their risk of...
My 85 yr old mother had a lung biopsy and they said she has Cryptogenic organizing genetic pneumonia , hope I got the name right. What is this and how bad is it ? She is taking prednisone I think, I am ill myself and cannot travel to see her, so I am trying to find out what is going on. Is it...
sunday night i had a fever, and was expierencing headaches, body aches/pains, a servere sore throat & cold symptoms [stuffy nose, watery eyes.] monday was the same thing, tuesday i went to the doctor, he said it seemed like a cold infection thing and prescribed a decongestiant. wednesday i began...
my brother went to the hospital tuesday by ambluance b/c he had a fever of 106! My brother would not respond to anything. Would not talk just look around. He was so out of it. He doesn't remember anything the first two days in the hospital. They found out he has the pneumonia and the side of...
Aches,lower back pain,shortness of breath, slight vibration in the chest when i breath in, and throat hurts from coughing. Maybe a fever too. I do NOT have health insurance. Please I would love to know some natural or over the counter remedies. I just got over the flu a few weeks ago so it may...
caught and shortness of breath ? i ve finished my 2nd course of antibiocis and still have wheezing and breatless ness how long more will this last for i also have pains in my chest on and off i ve also lost a good bit of weight
I wanted to know if i stopped taking my antibiotic for pneumonia what is the likely hood of it spreading to the other lung and not getting better. I feel good after 3 days and i want to stop taking it. Will my infection reverse itself and make me sick again.
I had acute bronchitis, it was viral because the antibiotics didn't work, its been going on about six weeks now that I have been congested and coughing, I know bronchitis takes a long time to get better and just in the last week has my cough become productive, but still, my throat is very sore...