Combining Azithromycin With Antibiotics can Reduce Mortality Rate Among Older Adults With Pneumonia

Combining azithromycin with other antibiotics in treating older patients hospitalized with pneumonia has been linked with significantly lower risk of death and a slightly increased risk of heart attack, a new study involving around 65,000 people and published in JAMA reveals. Pneumonia and influenza together are the eighth leading cause of death and the leading causes of infectious death in the United States. Although clinical practice guidelines recommend combination ...

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Written by: editor - Friday, July 4, 2014