Antibiotic prescription patterns violate guidelines, increase costs
...ons are no more effective, encourage the spread of antibiotic resistance, and cost 11 to 40 times as much. The f...age these common infections in ways that encourage antibiotic resistance and waste money," said Elbert S. Huang, M.D., M.P.H., an instructor of medicine at the Un...NICHD scientists develop vaccine against deadly hospital-acquired infection
...ins of S. aureus are resistant to methicillin, the antibiotic used to treat it. Similarly, researchers have als... strains of the bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic vancomycin, the only antibiotic known to kill methicillin-resistant S. aureus. Dr. Robbins explaine...Five-week antibiotic treatment may improve cardiovascular function
... For the first time researchers have shown that an antibiotic improved vascular function in people with angina w...crobe was identified, researchers tried to find an antibiotic that could eradicate it, says Juan Carlos Kaski, M.D., a co-author of the study and a professor of c...Three-month antibiotic treatment reduces risk of future heart attack
DALLAS, March 12 An antibiotic prolonged life and reduced risk of future heart at...on: Journal of the American Heart Association. The antibiotic clarithromycin significantly lowered risk of death or serious cardiovascular events compared to thos...Cedars-Sinai researchers to present findings at Amerian College of Cardiology Scientific Meeting
...10:30 a.m. This trial tests whether antichlamydial antibiotic therapy with Azithromycin would reduce risk of recurrent heart attack in 1440 high-risk patients. The study was fully funded by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Division of Cardiology and a grant to Dr. P.K. Shah from the Steven S. Cohen Heart Fund, n...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, March 19, 2002
...rial focused on the surprisingly wide variation in antibiotic prescribing for early Lyme disease (Editorial, p. 477). The writers say, "(T)here is no evidence that treatment with more than two weeks of antibiotics improves the prognosis, which in any case is excellent." * * * Case Report of Diabetic Drug Pi...The Lancet Oncology and The Lancet Infectious Diseases
...inoglycoside-containing combinations for empirical antibiotic treatment of febrile neutropenic patients: a meta-analysis Multiplexed immunoassays by flow cytometry for diagnosis and surveillance of infectious diseases in resource-poor settings Sequencing the Aspergillus fumigatus genome...Still no effective treatment for post-lyme disease symptoms
...VER, CO While Lyme disease is usually cured with antibiotic treatment, some patients experience persistent fat...n a study evaluating ceftriaxone, a broad spectrum antibiotic they hoped would be effective in treating post-Lyme disease symptoms. In a double blind, single cen...UCLA study shows many parents not getting antibiotic message
...ics 30 percent of the time. However, 55 percent of antibiotic prescriptions for these illnesses are not needed. There have been several nationwide health campaigns to educate people that antibiotics are not necessary for treating the common cold and that inappropriate use can lead to antibiotic-resistant infect...Commonly prescribed antibiotic ineffective for treating bronchitis
... this weeks issue of THE LANCET concludes that the antibiotic azithromycin is ineffective for treating bronchitis, even though it is often prescribed by physicians for this condition. Azithromycin is an expensive, broad-spectrum antibiotic; there is limited evidence about its effectiveness in treating bronchit...Outpatient treatment is as effective as inpatient treatment for PID
...ry disease (PID) fare just as well with outpatient antibiotic treatment as they do with more expensive inpatient...1 women with PID to either inpatient or outpatient antibiotic treatment. About 75 percent of the participants were African-American, and the same percent had an e...More preventive tuberculosis treatment should reduce cases in non-US-born
... and requires the patient to take 270 doses of the antibiotic isoniazid, a regimen that patients have difficulty complying with. In a study sponsored by the Tuberculosis Trial Consortium, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded organization Dr. Schluger chairs, patients will get a 12-dose regimen w...Sepsis on the increase in U.S., according to Emory University and CDC study
...that if you wait even four to eight hours to begin antibiotic therapy, the mortality from sepsis worsens considerably," notes Dr. Martin. "And antibiotics must be appropriate. Patients with severe sepsis are in shock, with organ failure, respiratory failure, and renal failure. Although the mortality with sev...Probiotics may prevent antibiotic associated diarrhoea
...dy the benefits of probiotics in the prevention of antibiotic associated diarrhoea. In all nine trials, the prob...hey found that probiotics are useful in preventing antibiotic associated diarrhoea. In particular, the yeast S boulardii and three strains of Lactobacillus have t...Low-cost reminder helps prevent infections for heart patients
...rdiagrams included comments were given appropriate antibiotic instructions compared to 65 percent whose reports excluded comment. The researchers conclude that including an echocardiographic report statement about endocarditis risk and the need for preventive antibiotics is a simple, low-cost intervention tha...Simple reminder can help patients avoid dangerous infection
...69 people responded to a mail survey regarding the antibiotic instructions. Of those respondents, nearly 75 percent of those whose echocardiograms included the notation took their antibiotics in advance. Less than two-thirds of those whose test results did not provide any specific recommendations complied with ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (first issue)
...e Medicine. Asthma at age 5 not associated with antibiotic use in first year Despite the publication of fiv...trospective studies showing an association between antibiotic use in early life and asthma in childhood, investigators in the first prospective study of the findi...Developer of anthrax quick test finds similar test for strep throat
...sore throat, independent of the issues surrounding antibiotic overuse. But the leader of a team that developed a rapid test for anthrax exposure has completed an assessment of various testing procedures used in the rapid test and found the results wanting. He suggests that rapid antigen testing lacks sensiti...