Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A lot of modern medicine is based on what Brad Spellberg, MD, and others call “inertial dogmas” — practices ...

Researchers have shown that antibiotic concentrations can be detected and measured in the exhaled breath of patients receiving intravenous treatment, raising the possibility that a simple breath test ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent study suggests that incomplete antibiotic therapy should be avoided and that transition to oral ...

Many infants with urinary tract infections (UTIs) also have concurrent pyelonephritis, prompting guidelines to suggest that these children receive 7-14 days of antibiotic therapy. The mode of ...

Switching to oral therapy after an initial course of intravenous antibiotics for infective endocarditis proved as effective as continuing intravenous treatment, with no increase in failure rates and ...

Intravitreal ceftazidime may help treat syphilitic uveitis when IV penicillin is delayed. Ceftazidime is not a substitute for IV penicillin, which is the preferred treatment. A case series reported ...

To study how best to treat potentially dangerous infections commonly seen in people with underlying chronic medical conditions, two infectious disease experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine have been ...

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 ...

Among patients with left-sided IE who matched the inclusion criteria of the Partial Oral Treatment of Endocarditis (POET) study, oral therapy compared with intravenous antibiotics was associated with ...