A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared broad-spectrum and narrow-spectrum antibiotics in the treatment of children with common respiratory infections.

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 ...

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 ...

Antibiotic resistance is an important issue and a priority for UK health policy. It's possibly the next ticking time bomb in the healthcare system. In our analysis, the financial burden of the tax is ...

Among adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting, broad-spectrum antibiotics vs macrolide monotherapy were associated with an increased risk for adverse drug events.

Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their therapeutic potential untapped even as multidrug resistance becomes an ...

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, ...

Individual risk assessment with automated EHR alerts are an effective and safe strategy to limit use of extended-spectrum antibiotics in patients hospitalized with UTI. An antibiotic stewardship ...

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Four major trends that will shape how we as a society will confront antibiotic resistance in the coming decade.

The money from the Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome has been awarded to researchers in 17 countries.