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News: May 28, 2012
Could Statins Help Prevent Pneumonia?
MONDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- Statin drugs, which are used to lower cholesterol, might reduce a bit the risk of developing pneumonia, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from a large international study that looked at the effica...
Cured Meat Products Linked to Lung Disease Flare-Ups
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Eating too much lunch meat, bacon, hot dogs and such could worsen symptoms of airway diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis, a new study suggests. These diseases, which cause inflammation of the lungs ...
Americans Living Longer, Report Finds
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Americans are living longer, a new report shows, with the average life expectancy going from 78.6 years in 2009 to 78.7 years in 2010. Meanwhile, U.S. death rates dropped half a percent between 2009 and 2010,...
Pneumonia Most Common Infection After Heart Surgery
TUESDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Pneumonia is the most common infection following heart surgery, a new study shows. The researchers also revealed that most infections occur about two weeks after an operation -- a week longer than previously th...
Vaccine Cut Flu Strain Linked to Meningitis, Pneumonia
FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccination has greatly reduced the incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) among young children in the United States over the past 20 years, a new study finds. That strain of flu was once the most comm...
Corticosteroids May Speed Pneumonia Recovery in Some
TUESDAY, May 31 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with an inflammatory lung condition known as community-acquired pneumonia appear to recover faster when treated with corticosteroids in addition to the standard regimen of antibiotics, Dutch researchers...
Vitamin D May Prevent Serious Respiratory Disease in Newborns
TUESDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D supplements for pregnant women may help prevent a respiratory disease called RSV that can lead to pneumonia and other potentially life-threatening illnesses in newborns, Dutch researchers report. Respi...
Inhaled Meds May Save COPD/Pneumonia Patients' Lives
WEDNESDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) -- Inhaled corticosteroids can actually reduce the risk of death in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, who are hospitalized with pneumonia, a new study has found. U.S. researchers exa...
Study Questions Safety of Pneumonia Treatment Guidelines
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Intensive care patients who may be infected with strains of pneumonia that are resistant to many drugs may be more likely to die if current treatment guidelines are followed, a new study suggests. The finding...
Heartburn Drugs May Raise Pneumonia Risk
MONDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Popular heartburn drugs, including proton pump inhibitors and histamine-2 receptor antagonists, may raise the risk of pneumonia, new research finds. Researchers in Korea analyzed the results of 31 studies on hea...
Prior Hospitalization With Pneumonia Often Tied to Later Misdiagnosis
FRIDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Misdiagnosis of pneumonia is common among patients readmitted to the hospital shortly after a hospitalization for the same illness, according to two companion studies. These misdiagnoses result in the overuse of...
Tamiflu May Thwart Pneumonia in 'Swine Flu' Patients: Study
TUESDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- When taken shortly after the onset of symptoms, the antiviral drug Tamiflu seems to have protected otherwise healthy swine flu patients from contracting pneumonia during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Chinese researc...
Too Few Adults Get Recommended Vaccinations
THURSDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Most parents make sure their children get all their vaccinations, but when it comes to adults these protective shots often fall by the wayside, a new report shows. In fact, 40,000 to 50,000 American adults die ...
Lung Infection Up in Wake of Kids' Pneumonia Vaccine
THURSDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Since the PCV7 early childhood vaccine for bacterial pneumonia was introduced in the United States in 2000, the number of children hospitalized for pneumonia because of pneumococcus has decreased by 50 percent...
Pollution May Boost Pneumonia Risk for Seniors
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who are exposed to significant levels of air pollution for more than a year face double the risk of pneumonia, Canadian researchers report. "We postulate that long-term exposure to air pollution may h...
Swine Flu Tied to Rise in Pneumonias Among Young
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The ongoing H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be driving a recent spike in dangerous pneumonias among younger patients, a U.S. health official said Wednesday. "We are seeing an increase in serious pneumococcal infe...
My 10-Day Ordeal With the Swine Flu
THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Like most people, I've been following the news about the H1N1 swine flu with some concern. Unlike most people, however, I've spent years interviewing doctors. And from the many hours talking with infectious-di...
Pneumonia Drug Promising Against Form of Muscular Dystrophy
THURSDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report that a drug used to treat pneumonia might serve as an effective treatment against a type of muscular dystrophy. They tested the drug pentamidine in mice and found that it appears to combat g...
Severe Swine Flu Can Kill Young, Old Alike
TUESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Californians both young and old are contracting H1N1, with infants the most likely to be hospitalized and adults over the age of 50, once hospitalized, the most likely to die, a new study shows. The report, appe...
Severe Swine Flu Could Lead to Blood Clots in Lungs: Study
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- People who are severely ill with the H1N1 swine flu run the risk of blood clots in the lungs, University of Michigan researchers say. And because standard chest X-rays may not be able to spot the potentially ...
Many Hospitalized With Swine Flu Had Been Healthy
TUESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDay News) -- While the majority of people hospitalized with the H1N1 swine flu have chronic medical conditions, many were healthy before coming down with the disease, a U.S. health official said Tuesday. More than half of h...
28 Pregnant Women Have Died From Swine Flu: CDC
THURSDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty-eight pregnant women in the United States had died from H1N1 swine flu as of the end of August, and 100 pregnant women had been hospitalized in intensive care, federal health officials said Thursday. Whi...
Ulcer Preventative May Raise Pneumonia Risks
FRIDAY, Sept. 18 (HealthDay News) -- A popular stomach acid reducer greatly increases the risk of pneumonia in certain critically ill hospital patients, a new study has found. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carol...
Get Your Vaccine for Seasonal Flu, Experts Urge
THURSDAY, Sept 10 (HealthDay News) -- Swine flu may be grabbing all the headlines, but seasonal flu poses a real threat this fall, too. And the time to act is now, by getting a seasonal flu shot. Then follow it up with an H1N1 swine flu vaccine wh...
New Vaccine May Work Better Against Lung Disease
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A recently developed pneumonia vaccine may be more effective in preventing infections in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than the vaccine that is typically used, new research sugges...
Blood Test Narrows Down Need for Antibiotics
TUESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A simple blood test may be able to help doctors determine which patients need antibiotics and which do not. A new study published in the Sept. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found th...
Cold, Flu or Pneumonia? Answer May Lie in Blood Test
THURSDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A genomic "signature" in blood appears able to identify people who've been exposed to common upper respiratory viruses, such as the cold or flu, even before symptoms develop. In a study involving 60 healthy vol...
Swine Flu Vaccine Taking Longer Than Expected
MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) -- A fully tested swine flu vaccine may not be available until the end of the year, a vaccine expert at the World Health Organization said Monday. But countries could use emergency measures to get the vaccines out ...
Fewer Shots Could Still Protect Kids From Pneumonia
TUESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Parents and babies alike will be relieved by new findings that show a reduced-dose schedule for the pneumococcal vaccine can protect infants against pneumonia and other infections. The current recommended dose s...
Statins May Not Protect Against Pneumonia
THURSDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs don't lower the risk of pneumonia in the elderly, according to a study that appears to dash hopes for this use of the drugs. "Prior research based on automated claims data had...
Acid-Suppressing Meds May Boost Pneumonia Risks
TUESDAY, May 26 (HealthDay News) -- Instead of helping them get better faster, giving acid-suppressing medications to many hospital patients actually increases their risk of developing pneumonia while in the hospital, new research suggests. In cri...
Swallowing-Breathing Dysfunction Worsens Lung Disorder
THURSDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) -- A disrupted breathing-swallowing pattern may explain why people with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased risk for aspiration pneumonia, researchers report. Patient...
Inhaled Corticosteroids Boost Pneumonia Risk in COPD
MONDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- The use of inhalers containing corticosteroids to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) might increase the risk of pneumonia by as much as 70 percent, researchers report. Inhaled corticosteroids, use...
Common Flu Strain Resistant to Popular Antiviral Drug
THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- The most common strain of flu this season is resistant to the popular antiviral drug Tamiflu, but government health officials said Thursday there is no reason to panic. The fact that the flu season so far has b...
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