Pneumonia

Faces of the flu

Published: Sun, November 8, 2009 @ 12:01 a.m. The number of patients seeking treatment for flulike symptoms has been double the usual amount this year. By ED RUNYAN VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER Dr. Peter Barnovsky, a family practice...

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Possible Help In Fight Against Muscle-Wasting Disease

University of Oregon-University of Rochester team finds compound that reverses type 1 myotonic dystrophyA compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according...

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Possible help in fight against muscle-wasting disease

A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. A five-member team of researchers from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and...

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Mild Pneumonia

WTF??? I was sick last week with what felt like a cold/flu. I felt better over the weekend and went to the gym on Sunday. Then on Monday I started hacking and coughing if I exerted myself. I couldn't make it to the gym, but...

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CHEST: COPD Treatment Determines Risk of Hospitalization (CME/CE)

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the likelihood of being hospitalized appears to vary depending on the type of long-acting bronchodilator treatment they’re receiving,...

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30,000 women die during childbirth every year

Friday, November 06, 2009 Muhammad Qasim Islamabad The Mother and Child Health Week is being observed in all areas covered by lady health workers (LHWs) from November 2-7. Majority of health experts, however, believe that the...

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Death toll from A/H1N1 flu rise to 39 in Vietnam

HANOI, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam confirmed two more deaths of A/H1N1 influenza, bringing the country's total number of flu deaths to 39, said a report on the website of the Ministry of Health on Friday. The 38th case is a...

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Swine flu revealed in seven out of 19 pneumonia victims

Swine flu has been revealed in seven pneumonia victims. On the whole, 19 people died of pneumonia in Belarus in the last two weeks. 21 people died of pneumonia in the same period of the last year. The chief sanitary physician...

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Pregnant woman dies of pneumonia in Hantsavichy

Zmіtser Panyamonau, Іvan Yurashchyk A pregnant woman has died in Hantsavichy Central District Hospital today. According to preliminary information – the death was caused by pneumonia. The death of the 38-year-old inhabitant of...

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27-year-old Chesapeake mother dies of swine flu

Nov 05, 2009 (The Virginian-Pilot - Even after a doctor said Angela probably had contracted the H1N1 flu, or swine flu, Hank Mefford and his wife still didn't worry too much. Chesapeake Health Director Nancy Welch said she...

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