A groundbreaking study has revealed a significant link between the frequency of chest X-ray referrals from GPs and earlier ...

Legionella is the bacteria which causes Legionnaires’ disease, a severe pneumonia that can be fatal. Nationally, Legionella largely remains unregulated, though a handful of states, including New ...

Importantly too, despite common misconceptions, Legionella is not just a summer issue; it can be a risk all year round and spring, in fact, is often the season that kicks the deadly bacteria into ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed a significant link between the frequency of chest x-ray referrals from GPs and earlier diagnosis and improved survival rates for lung cancer patients. Records of ...

Pope Francis was so close to death during his weeks-long hospital stint that doctors considered ending his pneumonia treatment so he could just die in peace, the head of his medical team revealed ...

Tiu, E., Talius, E., Patel, P. et al. Expert-level detection of pathologies from unannotated chest X-ray images via self-supervised learning. Nat. Biomed. Eng (2022 ...

Bacterial pneumonia is most commonly caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae which accounts for around 50% of cases. Other common causes include Haemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia ...

An AI-powered tool for pneumonia detection in chest X-rays using deep learning. Built with MobileNetV3 Small architecture, this application achieves 93% accuracy with fast inference (~45ms/image) and ...

For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD), long-term inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment is associated with increased rates of adverse composite and specific individual ...