Antibiotic Resistance Perspective

• 5 Things to Know When Prescribing Topical Antifungals Overuse of topical antifungals, particularly combination antifungal-steroids, can cause adverse effects and drive resistance. Here's what you need to know about judicious use of these medications.
  CDC Expert Commentary, July 02, 2024
• Cutting Down on Unnecessary Antibiotics for Pink Eye Children with conjunctivitis who received antibiotics carried no more risk for a later ambulatory visit than those who did not receive a prescription.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2024
• The Race to Get Drugs to Market   Elcin Barker Ergun, CEO of the Menarini Group, talks about a renewed interest in drug development to address unmet needs while shaping policy.
  WebMD, June 27, 2024
• Menopause and rUTIs: Highlighting Diagnosis Complications Age-related changes among older women can open up more possibilities for an inaccurate diagnosis and potential inappropriate use of antibiotics.
  Medscape Medical News, June 13, 2024
• ESCMID 2024 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ESCMID 2024
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, June 07, 2024
• Gonorrhoea: Antibiotics or Not? Molecular resistance testing weeds out cases where antibiotics are unnecessary.
  Medscape UK, May 09, 2024
• Q&A: Antiseptic Soap and Nasal Decolonization Infection prevention expert Susan Huang, MD, MPH, shares takeaway points from an intervention to reduce infections and hospitalizations among nursing home residents.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 06, 2024
• D-Mannose as UTI Treatment Offers No Benefit The dietary supplement D-mannose performed similarly to a placebo among women with recurrent urinary tract infections.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2024
• Twice as Nice? Double Antibiotics for Single Infection Problematic Repeat antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections that are pervasive but unnecessary.
  Medscape News UK, March 15, 2024
• New Antibiotic Promising for Complicated UTIs Cefepime-taniborbactam was more effective than meropenem among patients with complicated UTIs and bacterial infections of the kidney, said study.
  Medscape Medical News, February 15, 2024
• Switching From IV to Oral Antibiotics Safe, Study Shows Patients infected with gram-negative bacteria who were switched to oral antibiotics from an IV had comparable rates of death to those who kept receiving the drugs through an IV.
  Medscape Medical News, January 30, 2024
• Why I Don't Worry About Nephrotoxicity With Zosyn   Dr Paul Auwaerter explains why a warning about nephrotoxicity doesn't influence his decision to use Zosyn when it's indicated.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 11, 2023
• 5 Things to Know: Improving Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine CDC's epidemiologist Guillermo Sanchez, PA-C, MSHS, MPH, shares strategies to incorporate antibiotic stewardship into telemedicine appointments.
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 06, 2023
• Laissez-Faire Attitude Toward Infectious Diseases? This doc read some articles recently that raised his concern about the attitude toward treatment and prevention of infectious diseases, and lack of understanding of why we treat our patients.
  MDedge, November 14, 2023
• S2 Episode 6: Pediatric Asthma: When Is It an Emergency?   When is it time to send a child with an asthma exacerbation to the emergency department? Join Drs Michael Wechsler and Todd Florin as they discuss.
  Medscape, November 14, 2023
• IDWeek 2023 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from IDWeek 2023
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 11, 2023
• Can Zoo Poo Help Manage Diabetic Foot Ulcers? Feces from endangered species could possibly aid in treating diabetic foot ulcers, advancing the treatment considerably, writes David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, October 02, 2023
• Three Cases of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Clinicians should consider all three etiologies on community-acquired pneumonia presentation to improve antimicrobial stewardship and patient outcomes.
  CDC Expert Commentary, September 18, 2023
• CDC's New Program Aims to Help Hospitals Combat Sepsis Medscape spoke with CDC contributors Raymund Dantes, MD, MPH, and Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc, about the new Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements to help clinicians improve outcomes from sepsis.
  CDC Expert Commentary, September 12, 2023
• Change Makers: Elcin Barker Ergun on Healthcare Renaissance WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with Elcin Barker Ergun, CEO of the Menarini Group, in Florence, Italy, about what they believe to be a new renaissance in healthcare.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023