Background The etiologic profile of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) for each age group could be similar among inpatients and outpatients. This fact brings up the link between etiology of CAP ...

Actor Val Kilmer, 65, died of pneumonia this week, his daughter confirmed. Dr. Marc Siegel discusses common causes and risks ...

Clinical trials conducted in patients with CAP treated on an outpatient basis provide relevant data for clinicians dealing with management of this common serious infection. A number of trials have ...

Babies and children aged between three months and 11 years of age with pneumonia should be offered a three-day course of ...

Babies and children aged three months to 11 years with uncomplicated community acquired pneumonia should be offered a three day rather than five day course of antibiotics, the National Institute for ...

Among older adults who were treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the hospital, 12% were misdiagnosed, researchers ...

Babies and children between the ages of three months and 11-years-old with pneumonia should be offered a three-day rather than five-day course of antibiotics, according to a new draft NICE guideline.

Patients hospitalized with CAP who had an LRTS taken on admission exhibited reduced risk of mortality and were more likely to receive appropriate antibiotic therapy.

The World Health Organization ( WHO) has denied the reports of a new virus causing some patients in Russia to cough up blood.