Antibiotics

Acute appendicitis treated with antibiotics often ends up being treated with appendectomy, longer-term follow-up of the CODA Collaborative trial showed. In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to remove their appendix by 1 year, which rose to 46% by year 2, reported David Flum, MD, MPH, of the University of…

This immunotherapeutic enhances human neutrophil (blue nuclear stain, Hoeschest) phagocytosis of S. aureus (red, pHrodo stain). Credit: (C) Dr. Jennifer Payne A multi-disciplinary project driven by EMBL Australia researchers at Monash University and Harvard University has found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria — also known…

Scientists have found half of prawns sampled were contaminated with Vibrio in the United Kingdom but the strains of bacteria identified do not cause severe disease in humans. Quadram Institute researchers studied Vibrio in prawns in the UK to understand the bacterium’s contribution to human disease and its resistance to antibiotics.…

The former US president Bill Clinton’s health is improving but he will remain in a California hospital for at least another night to receive antibiotics intravenously for a urological infection that spread to his bloodstream, his spokesperson said on Friday. The 75-year-old Clinton, who served as president from 1993 to…

Bill Clinton was admitted two days ago to a hospital in Los Angeles for treatment of a “non-Covid infection”, a spokesman said. The former US president is suffering from a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, CNN has reported, adding on Friday that doctors and his staff said…

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Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Irvine, California with possible sepsis, CNN reports. According to a spokesperson, he was admitted to UC Irvine hospital’s intensive care unit with a non-COVID-19 related infection Tuesday. The former president’s doctors, Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack, said in a statement: “He was…

Live maggots are being increasingly used to clean wounds by the NHS amid the threat of antibiotic resistance threatening patients' well-being. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the treatment – which involves applying sterilised fly larvae to wounds to eat dead tissue – was common practice in the…

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Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Two of the three late-breaking abstract sessions coming up this week at the Infectious Disease Week (IDWeek) 2021 Annual Meeting are filled with the most recent evidence on COVID-19 prevention and treatment. Dr Adarsh Bhimraj Adarsh…