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UK study finds antibiotics azithromycin and doxycycline ineffective against COVID-19

In England, clinical guidance currently recommends treatment with oral doxycycline for suspected pneumonia in COVID-19 patients in the community – either if the cause is bacterial or if the cause is ... The PRINCIPLE trial shows that doxycycline is not

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The researchers who raced to sequence the virus’ genome. The Chinese ophthalmologist who tried to warn his colleagues about this novel pneumonia in December 2019.
Cambridge University develops DNA test for secondary infections in COVID-19 patients

This patient population is particular susceptible to further infections from bacteria and fungi that they may acquire in hospital – referred to as ‘ventilator-associated pneumonia’. ... Standard methods of testing for pneumonia are
Celltrion’s investigational mAb cuts COVID-19 recovery time

Within this patient population, approximately 60% of patients with moderate symptoms also suffered from COVID-19-related pneumonia.
Two drugs found to reduce mortality in severe COVID-19 patients

pneumonia. Another study of Sanofi’s Kevzara found that the IL-6 inhibitor was unable to prevent death or help patients come off ventilation among mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients.
UK selects Shionogi’s Fetcroja for antimicrobial reimbursement scheme

In these studies, the drug demonstrated efficacy against complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and blood stream infections (BSI).

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Rethinking our approach to infectious disease preparedness

treat patients suffering from life-threatening infections, such as pneumonia or sepsis. ... These bugs can cause or worsen a patient’s pneumonia and lead to septic shock, a life- threatening complication.
How will COVID-19 affect uptake of vaccinations against other diseases?

Influenza is deadly – in fact, from January to mid-April this year, three times more people in the UK died from flu or pneumonia than from COVID-19.
How COVID-19 is accelerating the threat of antimicrobial resistance

Trisha Greenlagh, an internationally recognised primary care professor, posted on Twitter in early April pointing out the NICE guidelines about the use of antibiotics for mild COVID pneumonia.
As COVID-19 takes over the world, biopharma fights back

Prior research has suggested that elevated IL-6 levels are associated with a higher mortality rate in people with community-acquired pneumonia.
The global antibiotic crisis: a 2020 perspective

It is associated with serious illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and causes severe infections including pneumonia and urinary tract infections. ... The consequences of such severe infections include drug-resistant pneumonia and sepsis, and often prove

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Nabriva Therapeutics appoints chief medical officer

we continue to advance the legamulin programme toward a potential approval for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.”.
Nabriva Therapeutics appoints new chief commercial officer

community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

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Viral News: Covid-19 and the media, one year on

She was requesting more information about an undiagnosed pneumonia that had been found in Wuhan, China, following a tip-off from a contact in Taiwan, who had seen chatter circulating on
Licensing Deal for NP213 Nail Fungus Treatment is Another Key Milestone for NovaBiotics

Other recent progress includes NovaBiotics’ novel antimicrobial-immunomodulator, Nylexa, which is now set to enter phase 3 clinical trials in the UK for COVID-19 and non-COVID pneumonia (in hospitalised
July 2020: diversity and inclusion in clinical trials round-up

In light of this, Genentech have highlighted how for a study on one of their treatments for patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia, study sites were included that are at the
My Dad was 'one in a million', as the saying goes. But actually he was one in 300 million (of patients worldwide with rare disease)

His medical team first thought it may have been a chest infection, then pneumonia and then Legionnaires' disease, but they soon arrived, correctly, at mesothelioma.
Life with multiple myeloma - why I'm a lucky man living the dream

It certainly wasn’t my first reaction when the consultant treating me for pneumonia told me I had a tumour. ... This could have been so different if I hadn’t recklessly gone skiing with what felt like flu and developed pneumonia, leading to a

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