2 Minute Medicine 1. In Switzerland, patients who were hospitalized with pneumonia and treated with beta-lactam antibiotic monotherapy did not fare as well as those trea...
Medical Daily A new randomized clinical trial for CAP put to rest these debates by concluding that monotherapy with beta-lactam alone was not worse than a combination th...
Pharmacy Times In a notable departure from previous guidelines, this new guideline recommends use of long-term macrolide antibiotic therapy to reduce the risk of COPD exacerbations in patients with moderate to severe COPD who have had 1 or more exacerbations in the ...
HCPLive Community-acquired pneumonia presents a number of dilemmas. Patients may be elderly or frail and it's sometimes difficult to identify the infectious organism initially. There is considerable debate about the selection of an appropriate antibiotic or ...
Medical Research News and Interviews on MedicalResearch.com (blog) Dr. Garin: Empiric treatment with a betalactam drug (monotherapy) was not equivalent to the combination of a betalactam and a macrolide in patients hospitalized for moderate severity pneumonia (proportion of patients not having reached clinical ...
HCPLive If mycoplasma infection is detected, azithromycin, the best tolerated macrolide , has been the treatment of choice although azithromycin resistance is still very high within pneumococcal infection. “Is there a push towards dual therapy?” Bradley asked.
Cystic Fibrosis News Today Chronic pulmonary therapies and chronic macrolide antibiotics are used more often in the United States, and the use of hypertonic saline and...
Monthly Prescribing Reference PHILADELPHIA, PA—Beta-lactam monotherapy proved to be non-inferior to beta-lactam/ macrolide combination therapy (BLM) or fluoroquinolone monotherapy in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), with regards to mortality risk, length of ...
Breitbart News "It is a macrolide -type antibiotic. It works by stopping the growth of bacteria." The Dolphins suspended Shelby without pay for the incident, which includes allegations of the end grabbing the ends of women in the club. The cops who stunned the ...
