A study in The Annals of Family Medicine explored how chest X-ray results influence antibiotic initiation by general practitioners in France when managing patients with suspected pneumonia.

Test data Chest X-ray images showing examples of normal lung (left), bacterial pneumonia (centre), and viral pneumonia (right). (Courtesy: Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 10.1088/2632-2153/acc30f) ...

A 61-year-old’s fever and cough persist despite dual antibiotics, revealing simultaneous bacterial, viral, and fungal ...

Walking pneumonia is usually diagnosed after a physical or an X-ray of the chest. In typical types of pneumonia, the X-ray would show one part of your lung that's affected. But if you have walking ...

Your doctor may also want to schedule a follow-up chest X-ray to make sure that your infection has completely cleared. While fever is a common symptom of pneumonia, it’s possible to have ...

HRCT is superior to conventional techniques in several key areas that impact on the management of nonresolving pneumonia. Compared with conventional chest x-ray (CXR), HRCT allows superior ...

Higher clinical severity was seen in patients with positive vs negative CR, with longer-lasting symptoms. (HealthDay News) — Many general practitioners prescribe antibiotics for suspected ...

Pope Francis has shown the onset of double pneumonia, further complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff, the Vatican said on Tuesday.“The laboratory tests, chest X-ray, and clinical conditions of ...

Pope Francis' recovery from double pneumonia continued Wednesday as a chest X-ray confirmed improvement, two days after doctors declared he is no longer in imminent danger of death. The latest ...