Unless pneumonia is suspected, clinicians should not prescribe antibiotics for most children with chest infections, according to findings of the ARTIC-PC randomized controlled trial, published in The ...

THE HSE has issued a health alert over a common winter illness that can become “severe and life-threatening” – with six signs ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors need to give antibiotics to more than 12,000 people with acute respiratory infections to prevent just one of them from being hospitalized with pneumonia, according ...

Antibiotic treatment duration was not linked to improved outcomes for patients hospitalized with CAP, suggesting a need for tailored prescribing.

A chest abscess tends to refer to an abscess in the lungs. This also includes abscesses in the muscles of the chest wall, between the lung tissue and the lining of the chest cavity. An abscess is a ...

UCSF researchers have discovered a way to identify deadly lung infections with improved accuracy by pairing AI with a unique ...