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Published 12/12/2017
Health Tip: Diagnosing Pneumonia
(HealthDay News) -- Pneumonia is a lung infection that most often spreads through coughing, sneezing or touching.
Most people recover in one to three weeks, but pneumonia can be deadly, especially among people with weaker immune systems.
The American Lung Associ...
Just Over Half of Adults with Work-Related Asthma Report Having Received a Pneumococcal Vaccine People with work-related asthma at high risk of pneumococcal pneumonia
Published 11/21/2017Adults with asthma are at increased risk for pneumococcal disease, yet according to a new CDC study published today in theAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine, just 54 percent of adults with work-related asthma—asthma triggered by an exposure at work—have been vaccinated against the infection...