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 ...

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 ...

The FDA approved an intravenous (IV) formulation of fosfomycin (Contepo) to treat adults with complicated urinary tract infection (cUTI), including acute pyelonephritis, caused by susceptible ...

Oral antibiotics may be a safe alternative to receiving prolonged intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a recent observational study published in JAMA Network Open. Overall, 14.3% of patients who ...

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 ...

Share on Facebook. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window An early switch to oral antibiotics in patients hospitalized ...