Pneumonia patients who are under 50 and don't smoke don't need chest X-rays to look for lung cancer, suggests a new study from Canada. The finding goes against most guidelines for pneumonia treatment, ...

The researchers found that 72.8% of children had negative CXRs, with 8.9% of these children clinically diagnosed with pneumonia and 9.3% given antibiotics for other bacterial syndromes. HealthDay News ...

Pneumonia is a common disease, affecting 5 million Americans per year, and is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. Patient survival improves significantly when pneumonia is diagnosed ...

Lung ultrasound has been shown to be highly effective and safe for diagnosing pneumonia in children and a potential substitute for chest X-ray, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of ...

Background and Goal: This study explored how chest X-ray results influence antibiotic initiation by general practitioners in France when managing patients with suspected pneumonia. Study Approach: A ...

Ultrasound may be as accurate as chest X-ray in detecting pneumonia in children, according to study findings presented at the 2014 European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting.

In a University of Chicago Medical Center study of 88 confirmed lung cancers, OnGuard 5.2 identified 25 percent more lung cancers than radiologists found when reviewing the same X-rays without OnGuard ...

doctor checking young child’s cough CXR had negative predictive value of 98.8% in children evaluated for suspected pneumonia. HealthDay News — A negative chest radiograph (CXR) accurately excludes ...