Asylum seekers' boats: from the perils of drowning to the hazards of Legionnaires' disease - Bhopal RS.
Having survived the perils of small boats crossing choppy seas, asylum seekers arriving in the UK are now confronting the hazards of a very rare, environmentally acquired pneumonia in a big boat.12Legionella species are ubiquitous and can be found in virtu... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 9, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Drowning, Suffocation Source Type: news

How seniors can access 4 key vaccines this fall — for COVID, flu, pneumonia, and RSV
COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal, and — for the first time — respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines will all be available this fall for older adults. But medical experts warn high costs and patchwork rollouts could be barriers for seniors trying to protect themselves. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Should you pick Novavax ’s COVID-19 shot over mRNA options?
For cardiologist Eric Topol, this week’s vaccine news presented a personal dilemma. Topol, who directs the Scripps Research Translational Institute and is a popular commenter on COVID-19 research, had hoped to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax, rather than a messenger RNA (mRNA) shot from Pfizer or Moderna. Novavax relies on an older, protein-based approach that has shown long-lasting effects against other pathogens, and Topol wondered whether it might produce more durable protection. On Tuesday, it seemed he might get his chance: a drugstore he visited for an mRNA vaccine ran out of doses, and hours later the...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

How U.S. Hospitals Undercut Public Health
This article was originally published in Undark Magazine. Health care in the United States — the largest industry in the world’s largest economy — is notoriously cost inefficient, consuming substantially more money per capita to deliver far inferior outcomes relative to peer nations. What is less widely recognized is that the health care industry is also remarkably energy inefficient. In an era of tightening connections between environmental destruction and disease, this widely neglected reality is a major cause behind many of the sicknesses our hospitals treat and the poor health outcomes they oversee...
Source: TIME: Health - October 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eric Reinhart and David Introcaso Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Vaping almost KILLED me: Mum, 26, was rushed to hospital unable to breathe and dizzy after getting pneumonia from e-cig addiction
Jodie Hudson, from Worksop in Nottinghamshire, swapped cigarettes for vapes two years ago as she was seeking a less harmful alternative. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Basilea Announces FDA Acceptance of New Drug Application for Antibiotic Ceftobiprole
Seeking approval for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date set for April 03,... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Applications - October 2, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Newer Antibiotic Effective Against Deadly Staph Infection Newer Antibiotic Effective Against Deadly Staph Infection
An antibiotic already in use in Europe to treat pneumonia controlled deadly bloodstream infections with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria just as effectively as the most powerful antibiotic currently in use, according to data from a late-stage trial.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

New Antibiotic Could Help Fight Resistant Staph Infections
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 -- New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections. The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

New Antibiotic Ceftobiprole Could Help Fight Resistant Staph Infections
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 -- New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections. The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

New Antibiotic, Ceftobiprole, Could Help Fight Resistant Staph Infections
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 -- New research shows that an antibiotic effective for bacterial pneumonia also appears to fight treatment-resistant staph infections. The drug is ceftobiprole. It appeared successful in fighting methicillin-resistant staph... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

EU Regulator to Discuss Anesthesia Risk for Weight-Loss Drugs EU Regulator to Discuss Anesthesia Risk for Weight-Loss Drugs
The EMA will discuss the risk that patients on Wegovy, Ozempic, or similar drugs may suffer certain complications under anesthesia that can lead to pneumonia, according to an agenda posted on the regulator ' s website.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Gastroenterology Headlines - September 27, 2023 Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Diabetes & Endocrinology News Source Type: news

Pneumonia, Not Just Inflammation, May Cause Severe COVID Pneumonia, Not Just Inflammation, May Cause Severe COVID
New research from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, however, is pointing to bacterial pneumonia as the cause of many severe COVID deaths.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - September 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

What a Doctor Is Seeing In COVID-19 Today
Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have been on the rise since the beginning of July. Then came the identification of the heavily mutated and possibly highly-transmissible BA.2.86 variant by the global surveillance network. Such a variant has the potential to evade our vaccine- and infection-induced antibodies and cause a surge of seasonal hospitalizations. The recommendation by the FDA’s VRBPAC in June that the Fall updated vaccine be composed of an XBB-lineage of the Omicron variant appeared to be at risk. There was mounting concern we be faced with a similar situation from last year where the virus had already mutated ...
Source: TIME: Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael Daignault Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news

Is Pneumonia The Surprising Root of Severe COVID?
New research points to pneumonia, not severe inflammation, as the true cause of severe COVID and death. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - September 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Three Antibiotic Regimens Show Similar Effectiveness for CAP Three Antibiotic Regimens Show Similar Effectiveness for CAP
Adults with nonsevere community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) responded nearly equally to three first-line and alternative antibiotic regimens, based on data from more than 23,000 individuals.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news