Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Got flu? Deal quickly with complications
Fighting the flu can be an unpleasant experience—but the misery may not stop there.
Feb 3, 2020
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Pneumonia
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pneumonia recovery reprograms immune cells of the lung
Researchers have determined that after lungs recover from infection, alveolar macrophages (immune cells that live in the lungs and help protect the lungs against infection) are different in multiple ways and those differences ...
Jan 28, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What you don't know about pneumonia: It is the 'big killer' for people of any age
For six hours in a Saint Luke's Hospital emergency room recently, Dakota Allen worried that he might become a fatal pneumonia statistic. He'd been coughing for weeks.
Jan 22, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Patient in Japan confirmed as having new virus from China
Japan's government said Thursday a man treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
Jan 16, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US warns citizens in China over mystery pneumonia outbreak
Americans travelling in China should avoid animals and contact with sick people as the country grapples with a mystery pneumonia outbreak, the US embassy in China said Tuesday.
Jan 7, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infectious diseases A to Z: What you need to know about pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs, and can range in seriousness from mild to life-threatening. Pneumonia can affect anyone, but the age groups at highest risk are children younger than ...
Jan 3, 2020
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Health
Vaping may have similar effects to smoking on harmful lung bacteria
E-cigarette vapor may have similar effects to cigarette smoke on bacteria associated with smoking-related illness such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, according to a study published in Respiratory ...
Dec 17, 2019
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Health
Exposure to e-cigarette vapor fails to induce pneumonia in mouse models
Exposure to e-cigarette vapor containing nicotine had no impact on the ability of Streptococcus pneumoniae strain TIGR4 to infect mouse models. The research is published December 2nd in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Dec 2, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers discover how lungs cells respond to bacteria
Previous research has shown that recovery from bacterial pneumonia hugely improves our defense against further infections by seeding the lungs with immune cells called lung resident memory T (TRM) cells, but how these cells ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pneumonia epidemic is deadliest child killer: aid groups
Pneumonia is the world's deadliest child killer, with a "forgotten epidemic" claiming one young life every 39 seconds, international health and children's agencies warned Tuesday.
Nov 12, 2019
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