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Father of two Tom Packham, 27, from Lancashire was wrongly diagnosed with asthma when he was suffering from potentially life-threatening pulmonary hypertension.
Most patients who are admitted to hospitals with acute viral infections are given antibiotics by their doctors or health care providers as a precaution against bacterial co-infection. Yet new research suggests this practice may not improve their survival rates. Researchers investigated the impact of antibiotic use on survival in more than 2,100 patients in a
New research is troubling: Most patients who are admitted to hospitals with acute viral infections are given antibiotics by doctors, yet this does not help those patients' survival rates.
A decades-long study that enrolled participants in the 1940s found that contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood was associated with a higher risk for premature death from respiratory disease in adulthood.