Antibiotic stewardship requires using broad spectrum agents only when necessary in order to minimize spread of antibiotic resistance. The studies tested the impact on antibiotic prescribing of an ...

HealthDay News — For children with acute respiratory tract infections, broad-spectrum antibiotics are not associated with better clinical or patient-centered outcomes compared with narrow-spectrum ...

Most antibiotics are double-edged swords. Besides killing the pathogen they are prescribed for, they also decimate beneficial bacteria and change the composition of the gut microbiome. As a result, ...

Overall rates of antibiotic use in US hospitals remained unchanged from 2006 to 2012, according to a new study. However, use of certain antibiotic classes, including some broad-spectrum antibiotics, ...

Clinical outcomes among adult inpatients were no worse when broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was delayed vs started early, challenging the belief that overly broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Pediatric practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of initial UTI in febrile infants and young ...

A new study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare has found that administering broad-spectrum antibiotics, which act against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria, to treat patients with ...

A selective approach is better when prescribing antibiotics to children with common respiratory infections, suggests new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The ...

Antibiotic use among commercially insured Americans fell by nearly 10 percent from 2010 through 2016, according to a report released Thursday by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. To assess ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, particularly piperacillin-tazobactam and Primaxin, for the treatment of ...

For pediatric patients with uncomplicated appendicitis, what is the best choice of antibiotic therapy for preventing surgical-site infection and lowering the frequency of hospital revisits? Overall, ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats of our time. There is a pressing need for new and novel antibiotics to combat the rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Researchers ...