Oral Antibiotic Treats Childhood Pneumonia in Developing Countries
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FRIDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- The oral antibiotic amoxicillin may offer an alternative to injectable penicillin for treating pneumonia in young children in developing countries.
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People using acid-suppressing medication to treat indigestion may be at increased risk of pneumonia. New medications that suppress the production of acid in the stomach have revolutionized the treatment of
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Treating severe pneumonia in children at home with oral antibiotics works just as well as treating them with intravenous drugs at a hospital as advised by the World Health Organization, scientists said on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - The United Nations (news - web sites)&#39; Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites)) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS (news - web sites) virus as &quot;a
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Popular heartburn and ulcer drugs can make people more susceptible to pneumonia because they reduce germ-killing stomach acid, Dutch researchers say.
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Giving children antibiotics to ward off  repeat urinary tract infections does not prevent the problem  from returning and leads to infections that are resistant to  the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - The use of commonly prescribed "broad-spectrum" antibiotics, which destroy a wide range of bacteria, during infancy may raise the risk of asthma later in childhood, according to a Canadian report in the journal Chest.
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Use of acid-suppressive drugs to beat digestive disorders increases the risk of pneumonia, researchers say.
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Children who are treated at home for severe pneumonia do just as well as youngsters admitted to hospital, a finding that could be a boon for health care and medical costs in poor countries.
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Giving children antibiotics to ward off repeat urinary tract infections does not prevent the problem from returning and leads to infections that are resistant to the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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(HealthDay News) - Antibiotics are safe and effective medications prescribed to treat bacterial infections.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- The low-cost antibiotic Co-trimoxazole reduced mortality rates of HIV-positive children in Africa by nearly 50 percent, according to a new study in The Lancet.
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A low-cost antibiotic which has  performed well in tests should be given to all HIV children in  developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia  and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - An effort to change doctors' prescribing habits for antibiotics and to educate parents of small children about the proper use of antibiotics was only moderately successful at curbing antibiotic use, Boston researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - People who take medication to reduce stomach acid seem to be at increased risk of developing pneumonia, the results of a population-based study suggest.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining normal zinc concentrations in the blood may help prevent pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK, Sep 16 (IPS) - With HIV-infected children dying much faster than  adults â shockingly, one-half by their second birthday â doctors  are scrambling to design new treatment protocols that work even  in the most resource-poor settings.