Ageing, lifestyle changes, limited access to healthcare and socio-economic challenges have contributed heavily to the rising mortality rate among Kenya's elderly population, raising concerns about the ...

The use of corticosteroids in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) lowers the risk of death by 30 ...

Dec. 3, 2024 — An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has identified several species that produce substances toxic to the bacterium that causes the human disease tuberculosis. The ...

Public health officials in Kansas City are sounding the alarm about a tuberculosis outbreak. Two people have died and at ...

Rhode Island Hospital at Brown University Health will receive $1 million to demonstrate proof of concept for a test that uses ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Kansas health officials are fighting the largest tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in U.S ...

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% ...

Antibiotic overuse is a key driver in the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major global health crisis.

A growing understanding of the importance of the gut microbiome for health has also highlighted how antibiotics can wreak ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Tigecycline should not be used as monotherapy in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). I found this article very important because it shows that ...

Data were included for all hospitalized and nonhospitalized adults in the database with at least one estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) measurement in the two years prior to a COVID-19 ...