Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer than 6% were “early switchers,” despite this being associated with a shorter duration of antibiotics and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among adults with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, treatment with 7 days of oral moxifloxacin is not noninferior ...

Oral antibiotics may be a safe alternative to receiving prolonged intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a recent observational study published in JAMA Network Open. Overall, 14.3% of patients who ...

People who inject illicit drugs can develop potentially deadly infections of the heart, blood, joints and soft tissues. Typically, such infections require weeks of hospitalization to treat effectively ...

Risk of all-cause mortality was similar in patients with uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia who switched early to oral antibiotics from IV antibiotics, according to retrospective, cohort study. Of ...

BALTIMORE -- There was no benefit with a longer- versus shorter-duration prophylactic antibiotic regimen in reducing surgical site infections after endoprosthetic reconstruction for lower-extremity ...

In patients with naïve advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and high PD-LI expression who are treated with pembrolizumab, the use of intravenous (IV) antibiotics may negatively impact ...

As an Infectious Disease physician, I see many patients with osteomyelitis, or infection of the bone. It’s a common infection especially in patients with diabetes, poor circulation, and following ...

An experimental oral antibiotic is more than 90% effective in treating complicated urinary tract infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, researchers say. The drug, Tebipenem pivoxil ...

Treating patients at home with IV antibiotics, rather than in a clinical setting, could halve costs to the NHS and relieve pressure on hospital beds - according to a University of East Anglia study.