Equipping nursing home staff with proper training and techniques to provide effective oral care to residents reduced the number of pneumonia cases at facilities during the first year of a two-year ...

A surge in pneumonia hospital admissions has seen a leading charity demand greater focus on basic care provision ...

BOSTON — When elderly nursing home residents contract pneumonia, it is a blow to their already fragile health. Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on ...

Objective: To characterize care of nursing home residents who became ill with nursing home–acquired pneumonia (NHAP) in a group-model, nonprofit HMO, and to pilot-test a strategy to implement ...

The terms hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and health care–associated pneumonia (HCAP) are often used interchangeably, although HCAP encompasses not only patients hospitalized within the past 3 ...

Good oral hygiene can help prevent pneumonia, a leading cause of death among nursing home residents, according to a recent study. Researchers with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Intensive care units at Cleveland-area hospitals have been at near capacity for weeks, and part of the reason may be a surge in pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. The number ...

A bacterial infection known as walking pneumonia is on the rise in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned. Cases are particularly high among young children.

ROCK SPRINGS — People can get flu vaccinations from the Sweetwater County Community Nursing Service at the Sweetwater County Health and Human Services building, 333 Broadway Suite 110 in Rock Springs.