Antibiotics

Third-party vendor physicians appear to be more much more likely than their system-employed counterparts to prescribe antibiotics during acute care telehealth visits for acute respiratory infection (ARI), according to a recent study in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. As health systems expand their direct-to-consumer (DTC) virtual care, the quality…

Gram-stained P. aeruginosa bacteria (pink-red rods) Credit: Wikipedia A study has found that much higher doses of antibiotics are needed to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present. It helps explain why respiratory infections often persist in people with lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Although appendectomy (surgical removal of the appendix) is still the most effective treatment for acute appendicitis, nonoperative management is increasingly common as recent studies have shown that antibiotics can be an effective initial treatment for many patients. A new analysis of cases in the National Cancer…

Russia and Ukraine are sounding more upbeat about peace talks, focusing on compromise. Meanwhile, NATO vowed to keep helping Ukraine. Ukrainian medical workers set up a temporary field hospital in a basement in the Kyiv region. They have prepared emergency medical supplies including antibiotics and dressings to treat patients. A…

Antibiotics: Are you misusing them?Find out how the overuse of antibiotics has increased the number of drug-resistant germs — and what you can do to help stop this health threat. By Mayo Clinic Staff Antibiotics are important drugs. Many antibiotics can successfully treat infections caused by bacteria (bacterial infections). Antibiotics…

By Jason Arunn Murugesu A coloured scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria on bladder cells in a urine sample from a patient with a urinary tract infection SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An antiseptic drug that inhibits the growth of bacteria in urine may be as effective as antibiotics…

By Jason Arunn Murugesu A coloured scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria on bladder cells in a urine sample from a patient with a urinary tract infection SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An antiseptic drug that inhibits the growth of bacteria in urine may be as effective as antibiotics…

The World Health Organization is expected to recommend truncating treatment of children with mild tuberculosis by 2 months — from 6 months to 4 — after a randomized trial found similar outcomes with the shorter regimen. An international team of investigators found the abbreviated course of antibiotics was no less…

by Dr. Christine Waasdorp Hurtado Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Q: My daughter had to take antibiotics and they seem to have given her some tummy issues. Can probiotics help restore gut balance? A: Antibiotics can kill both good and bad bacteria in your child's gut. This may throw your child's…

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that has become resistant to most of the antibiotics used to treat regular staph infections. Duke computer scientist Bruce Donald and collaborators at the University of Connecticut are working to develop new enzyme inhibitors to fight MRSA. In research published in PLOS…