Pneumonia

Pneumonia: Chuck Brown's Condition, Explained

The Huffington Post | Amanda L. Chan | Posted 05.17.2012

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The "Godfather of Go-Go" Chuck Brown has died at age 75 after battling pneumonia, according to news reports. The Associated Press reported that Bro...

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Routine Vaccination Solutions for Nigeria Will Save Lives and Money

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.10.2012

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Tom Murphy

Nigeria is home to one out of every eight child deaths worldwide, and the Decade of Vaccines Economics projects 90 percent vaccine coverage can save 600,000 lives and $17 billion in Nigeria over the next 10 years.

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

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Dr. Orin Levine

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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Global Motherhood: Perils And Promise In Ghana

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.07.2012

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Dr. Orin Levine

In the United States, we can practically start planning our kids' birthdays from the day they come home from the hospital; deaths in childhood are quite rare. In Ghana, though, you can't take a child's fifth birthday for granted.

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First Steps Toward the Last Mile in Nigeria

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 04.13.2012

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Dr. Orin Levine

Likewise, as one of only three remaining countries in the world with endemic polio transmission, they have recently ramped up efforts to eradicate polio from the country, and thereby, help rid it from the entire world.

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Do You Need The Pneumonia Vaccine?

Posted 02.19.2012

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Punxsutawney Phil's prediction at the beginning of the month promised six more weeks of winter, a time you're most likely to be suffering with the sni...

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FDA Approves Prevnar Pneumonia Vaccine

Reuters | Anna Yukhananov | Posted 02.29.2012

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By Anna Yukhananov (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators approved the expansion of Pfizer Inc's blockbuster Prevnar vaccine for use in adul...

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Pneumonia: One Disease, Two Solutions

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 01.17.2012

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Kathy Bushkin Calvin

Pneumonia inflicts a terrible toll on children around the world. Yet it doesn't have to. With your help, we can all breathe a little easier -- one vaccine and one clean cookstove at a time.

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World Pneumonia Day -- Celebrating Interventions That Save Lives

Melinda Gates | Posted 01.14.2012

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Melinda Gates

A report released this week from Johns Hopkins University examines progress on several interventions in the 15 countries with the most child pneumonia deaths.

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Remembering the Forgotten Killer

Mandy Moore | Posted 01.11.2012

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Mandy Moore

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Yes, read that last line again.

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5 Myths About Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 01.11.2012

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Dr. Orin Levine

Despite renewed global attention and its dramatic toll, pneumonia remains one of the world's least-understood conditions. Let's tackle a few of the leading myths head-on.

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Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health

Seth Berkley, M.D. | Posted 12.19.2011

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Seth Berkley, M.D.

The power of vaccines is evident around the world, but nowhere will it be more so than in the over 30 developing countries that will begin -- for the first time -- to immunize their children with new rotavirus and pneumococcal vaccines.

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Progress That Demands Performance

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.27.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

For someone who has worked diligently for over a decade to accelerate access to new life-saving pneumonia vaccines, announcements like this week's make it all seem worth it.

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Vaccine Group Donates $1 Billion To Provide Shots For Needy Children

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

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LONDON -- A global health group says it will donate just over $1 billion to immunize children in 37 countries from life-threatening diseases. The Glo...

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Le Chaim!

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jack Schimmelman

We are fragile corporal fragments. We bleed, we breathe. When we are pulled into the theater of illness we suddenly, simultaneously, feel our ephemeral immortal pulse. One we measure, the other we sense.

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Our Germs in the Gorillas' Midst

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 06.05.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

With the expanded use of life-saving interventions like the pneumococcal vaccine, we need to learn as much as possible about the remaining causes of severe pneumonia in children as we can.

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Medical Documentarians: Putting A Human Face on the Search for a Cure

George Heymont | Posted 05.28.2011

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George Heymont

Back in the early 1980s, when AIDS was making its first cruel advances through the population, many of us felt an overwhelming sense of hopelessness a...

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Leadership + Innovation = Lives Saved

Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melinda Gates

AMC has brought a state-of-the art pneumonia vaccine to Kenya about 18 months after it was introduced in Europe; until now, it took 15 to 20 years for new vaccines to trickle down to poor countries.

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The Miracle of Vaccines

Melinda Gates | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melinda Gates

It's really hard to see a child struggling to breathe. But there were several in the acute care ward I visited in Kenya. Pneumonia is such a terrible disease, but there is a new tool that can prevent many cases of it -- and prevent them rather easily.

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Help for the World's Children Affected by HIV/AIDS

Leila Nimatallah | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leila Nimatallah

Some would argue that the faces that motivated President George W. Bush's unparalleled investment in AIDS prevention, treatment, and care were the fac...

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A Child Pneumonia Death Every 20 Seconds Is Unacceptable

Jeffrey L. Sturchio | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeffrey L. Sturchio

Pneumonia still kills more children under the age of five than any other disease, claiming a young life every 20 seconds.

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Addressing a Global Killer This World Pneumonia Day

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karl Hofmann

Few Americans would guess that pneumonia kills more children than any other disease, but in many developing countries access to effective treatment is limited. So what's being done?

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Surgeons At Italy's 'Clinic Of Horrors' Jailed For Unnecessary Operations

Posted 05.25.2011

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In a case that seems lifted from a Wes Craven movie script, eight Italian doctors have been slapped with jail time for carrying out 83 unnecessary ope...

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Pneumonia's Final Verse

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

A quick Google News search this morning using the term "pneumonia" brought up a bunch of stories. Most of them were about Canadian folk singer Bruce C...

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How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D.

The U.S. cannot vaccine the world's children alone. Immunizing children is a shared responsibility of the world community. But, unfortunately, just 16 countries contribute to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization .

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