A new study suggests patients hospitalized with pneumonia may be at serious risk of new or worsening heart problems. The study is published in tClinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online.Researchers led by Daniel Musher, MD, studied the records of all 170 patients hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia at a Texas Veterans Affairs medical center from 2001 to 2005. They found that 19. [click link for full article]