World Pneumonia Day: The Importance of Education and Prevention
To mark World Pneumonia Day, the Global Conference for World Pneumonia Day will be held on Thursday, 12 November, and will underscore the importanc...
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Pneumonia caused by COVID-19 can result in significant respiratory after-effects
A high percentage of patients who have suffered serious illness as a result of COVID-19, for example pneumonia, continue to experience after-effect...
Performing a CT scan on people at risk of lung cancer allows early diagnosis of the disease
Lung cancer continues to have the highest mortality of all malignant neoplasms, both in men and women. Despite advances in treatment, global surviv...
Vaccination against flu and pneumonia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Pneumonia and influenza are totally preventable respiratory infections. Nevertheless, thousands of cases are diagnosed every year. This year, in ad...
People who smoke and suffer from COPD are more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications
Active smokers who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are more likely to present serious forms of COVID-19. There are yet no studies...
Using social media to raise awareness about pneumonia
Approximately 800,000 children and 1 million elderly people died of pneumonia around the world in 2017. Nevertheless, the severity of pneumonia is...
How to tell the difference between allergy symptoms and COVID
During the COVID-19 pandemic, allergists and other specialists such as pulmonologists, ENT specialists, internists and dermatologists have attended...
Smoking increases complications when infected with COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that affects people with respiratory diseases such as asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or pulmonary fibro...
Smoking makes the follow-up of oxygen therapy worse in patients with COPD
It is important to follow the indications of the professionals and the treatment in order to improve the survival of the patients. Long-term home...