News tagged with 'Pneumonia'

Seven years after the attack on the World Trade Center, first responders still had a reduced lung function, some equal to a decade of aging, this published study finds.

Hospitals could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars if they acted like the top five hospitals in the U.S., according to HealthGrades.

A new study finds that about 48,000 Americans die from infections acquired in the hospital, and that raises the cost of health care by billions of dollars. These are not infections that individuals would have caught had they not been hospitalized, says the study from Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C. think tank.

Miami-Dade health officials have cleared the luxury Epic Hotel of the Legionella bacteria that killed one tourist. Where it came from they are not saying. But the two others sickened did contract Legionnaires' disease from the hotel, which is being cleaned and remains closed.

Older donated blood resulted in blood poisoning or pneumonia among hospital patients, according to a new study -  reinforcing the idea that donated blood should be discarded before 6 weeks, which is the current outside limit.