The best antibiotic to treat pneumonia will depend on several factors, such as your type of pneumonia, age, lifestyle, and medical history. Zithromax (azithromycin) is often the first-line treatment ...

Antibiotic selection, dosing, and route were at the discretion of the treating team. We excluded patients with severe immunosuppression, foci requiring prolonged treatment, single cultures with ...

If you stop treatment early, these harder-to-kill bacteria can begin to multiply and re-establish the infection. Another issue is that antibiotics have short half-lives (meaning the amount of time a ...

The authors say shorter antibiotic treatment for bloodstream infections could hold many benefits for patients and healthcare systems. "Adopting a 7-day treatment strategy requires no new expensive ...

Parents were given the choice of two treatment strategies—antibiotics alone or urgent laparoscopic appendectomy. Nonoperative management consisted of at least 24 hours of intravenous antibiotics.

Hyderabad: The Telangana Medical Council officials on Saturday cracked a whip on the Ayurvedic doctor who was prescribing allopathic and high dose antibiotic medicines to the pregnant women ...

Contact with this pus can spread boils to other parts of your body and other people. Keep affected areas clean with antibiotic soap and covered when healing. Be careful when disposing of bandages ...

This literature review discusses various topical antibiotic treatment options for uncomplicated ... including the ability to achieve high local drug concentrations at the site of the infection ...

In addition to the urgent need for new antibiotics, alternative strategies are required to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance. Michaela Wenzel, Associate Professor at Chalmers University ...

A professional web application designed to help healthcare professionals calculate medication doses based on Creatinine Clearance (CrCl) values. This tool provides evidence-based dosing ...

Vancomycin 265/309 (85.8%) 76/265 (25.3%) 198/309 (64.1%) † Clinical cure is resolution of diarrhea following the recommended dose of ... narrow the antibiotic spectrum of treatment after ...