Completing the prescribed antibiotic course is crucial for several reasons. In an interview with HT Lifestyle, health experts share that the importance of completing the full course of antibiotics ...

In patients with solid tumors with uncomplicated infections, short vs long courses of antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated infections showed comparable outcomes, with no significant differences in ...

Prolonged antibiotic courses were not associated with reduced risk for postoperative spinal implant infections.

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality and pneumonia recurrence at day 60 did not significantly differ between short-course vs. usual ...

For young children with febrile urinary tract infection (fUTI), a five-day amoxicillin-clavulanate course is noninferior to a 10-day course for recurrence of UTI within 30 days after completion of ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet’s eClinical Medicine, researchers performed a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the safety of short-course antibiotic treatment ...

Less is also better – that is what researchers have found while conducting a tri-nation clinical trial to see if shorter courses of antibiotics are as effective as longer prescriptions of the drug to ...

Antibiotic overuse is a key driver in the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a major global health crisis. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In children with nonsevere community-acquired pneumonia, or CAP, a shorter course of antibiotic therapy appeared ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...