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Blastomycosis is often misdiagnosed, resulting in tragic outcomes. It is caused by a fungus living in moist soil, in wooded areas of the United States and Canada. If inhaled, the fungus can cause mild breathing problems that may worsen and cause serious illness and even death.
As many as 28% of hospitalized patients requiring mechanical ventilators to help them breathe (for more than 48 hours) will develop ventilator-associated pneumonia. Current therapy involves intravenous antibiotics, but new antibiotics that can be inhaled (and more directly treat the infection) are being developed.
Multiple experimental evidences have confirmed that at the molecular level, cancer is caused by lesions in cellular DNA.
A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.