Pneumonia News
March 24, 2025
Top Headlines
Mar. 13, 2025 — A study has established the importance of immunoglobulin A, an antibody that is part of the immune system, in generating a response to pneumonia vaccines. Researchers have found that the absence of ...
Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their discharge -- either ...
Dec. 18, 2023 — Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients -- and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study examined whether daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients is associated with ...
Nov. 28, 2023 — A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide range of serotypes. Experiments were conducted using mice ...
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Nov. 15, 2024 — Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking ...
Oct. 29, 2024 — Doctors struggle to accurately predict pneumonia patients' prognoses and determine the most effective treatments. Now, by applying a sophisticated machine-learning approach to electronic health ...
July 3, 2024 — Combining genomic data and human travel patterns over a 14-year period in South Africa reveals key insights into the spread, evolution and resistance patterns of a major bacterium behind pneumonia ...
Nov. 28, 2023 — A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide range ...
Oct. 2, 2023 — An evolutionary gateway which helps pneumonia cells become resistant to antibiotics has been ...
Sep. 12, 2023 — Pneumonia is an infection of the lung alveoli caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality ...
Apr. 25, 2023 — Typically T cells of the immune system respond to a specific feature (antigen) of a microbe, thereby generating protective immunity. Scientists have discovered an exception to this rule. Namely, a ...
Researchers Uncover New Differences in Bacteria's Sugar Coat to Aid Pneumococcal Vaccine Development
Apr. 17, 2023 — Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). ...
Mar. 16, 2023 — Pneumococcal disease leads to over three million hospitalizations and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. A new study suggests that the ...
Sep. 22, 2022 — Engineers have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. In mice, ...
Earlier Headlines
Feb. 8, 2023 — A new study reveals how resistance to bacteraemic pneumonia is provided by a unique subset of lung T regulatory ...
Aug. 17, 2022 — A pioneering genomic surveillance study has provided the clearest picture yet of the arms race between Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for a range of illnesses such as pneumonia ...
June 13, 2022 — Many different types of bacteria and viruses can cause pneumonia, but there is no easy way to determine which microbe is causing a particular patient's illness. This uncertainty makes it harder ...
Apr. 19, 2022 — A new study shows patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with other types of ...