Medically reviewed by Jane Kim, MD Antibiotics for pneumonia include Zithromax (azithromycin), Biaxin (clarithromycin), and Erythrocin (erythromycin). Azithromycin is often the first-line treatment ...

Adults who are admitted to the hospital are often inappropriately diagnosed with — and treated for — pneumonia, new research ...

New review links antimicrobial stewardship programs to reduced mortality and faster clinical stability in hospitalized adults ...

National guidelines for inpatient care of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP ... with respect to the correct choice of initial antibiotics- but with a more liberal window (24-48 hours)- on process ...

Between 1936 and 1945, pneumonia death rates in the United States dropped approximately 40 percent with the greater availability of antibiotics ... pneumonia exist for adults, but many high ...

Babies and children aged between three months and 11 years of age with pneumonia should be offered a three-day course of ...

Babies and children between the ages of three months and 11-years-old with pneumonia should be offered a three-day rather than five-day course of antibiotics, according to a new draft NICE guideline.

This is the case with most types of pneumonia, including: If you have bacterial pneumonia, you'll remain contagious until you've been on antibiotics ... causing pneumonia. Adults older than ...