In a remarkable case from a recent medical study, doctors have successfully diagnosed and treated a rare condition known as exogenous lipid pneumonia (ELP) that closely resembled lung cancer in a ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common ICU infection, affecting up to 20% of critically ill patients with a ...

Franklin County Pneumonia Study Group. JAMA 275:194-198, 1996. Over the last several years, a number of advances have been made in understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of pneumonia ...

M. pneumoniae affects all children but pneumonia occurs mainly in older groups, according to the degree of immune maturation. Pathogenesis of lung injury in M. pneumoniae infection may be ...

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses.

It was a unique and close student-mentor relationship that set a genial, good humoured “student” on course to becoming a world leader. The teacher, Geoffrey Dawes, was in his 70s; the student, Chris ...

A 2020 study of pneumonia patients in South Korea found missing teeth ... The influence of Porphyromonas gingivalis bacterium causing periodontal disease on the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: ...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the airways of the lungs. When triggered, asthma causes episodic attacks characterized by bronchospasms (spasms of the airways), bronchoconstriction ...