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The number of drug-resistant infections is rapidly rising in Ukraine, according to reports - with the UK’s government agency for health security on alert over a risk of case numbers increasing.

Older adults are also more likely to be on chronic medications, like antipsychotics or anticholinergics, that increase the risk of pneumonia while masking the symptoms, such as coughing. In adults ...

It demonstrated that short-course antibiotics tailored to individual recovery are just as effective as traditional longer treatments in preventing death and the recurrence of pneumonia.

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