Antibiotic Resistance News

• The Case of the Drunken Teetotaler Episodes of somnolence and lethargy with recurring alcohol intoxication tormented a 50-year-old woman until the diagnosis of the rare auto-brewery syndrome was considered.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 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
• 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
• New Era? 'Double Selective' Antibiotic Spares the Microbiome An experimental antibiotic can kill bad bacteria and spare the good, opening the door to a new strategy for the future of antibiotic development.
  Medscape Medical News, June 07, 2024
• Most Chronic Wounds Not Managed by Dermatologists "By examining national trends in patient visits and treatment, we may be able to better inform healthcare utilization for cutaneous wounds," Chandy said.
  Medscape Medical News, May 30, 2024
• AUA 2024 Do You Really Know a UTI When You See It? Instead of the current three categories used in UTI diagnosis, a new study proposed and tested an expanded approach with five categories.
  Medscape Medical News, May 20, 2024
• Critics Say FDA's Use of Surrogate Markers Falling Short As the FDA's use of surrogate endpoints in the drug approval process is increasing, researchers are concerned important post-approval or validation studies are lacking.
  Medscape Medical News, May 17, 2024
• Water Insecurity Raises Health Risks in Vulnerable Patients More than 6 million households in Mexico had difficulties related to the access, availability, and use of water.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2024
• Gonorrhoea: Antibiotics or Not? Molecular resistance testing weeds out cases where antibiotics are unnecessary.
  Medscape UK, May 09, 2024
• Where Do Postoperative Infections Come From? In most cases, the bacteria causing infection are genetically similar to those present on the patient's body before the operation, data indicate.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2024
• Vaccine Against Urinary Tract Infections in Development A randomized study published in 2022 showed the vaccine's efficacy in preventing urinary tract infections over 9 months.
  Medscape Medical News, May 01, 2024
• Europe Strengthens Future Disease Defense A network of countries and health agencies will coordinate a strategy to identify and mitigate future disease threats.
  Medscape Medical News, April 26, 2024
• Electronic System Slashes Antibiotic Use Prescriptions for broad-spectrum antibiotics fell when clinicians were intercepted by a risk-assessment prompt.
  Medscape Medical News, April 24, 2024
• Can D-Mannose Prevent Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection? The global rise in antibiotic resistance has complicated the therapeutic choices for urinary tract infections.
  Medscape Medical News, April 24, 2024
• Antibiotics of Little Benefit in LRTI Those receiving an antibiotic in the primary- and urgent-care setting had a small but significant increase in overall length of illness, a new study found.
  MDedge News, April 17, 2024
• What's Behind Long-Term Antibiotic Prescribing for Acne? "This study explored why dermatologists still prescribe a good number of long-term antibiotics for people with acne," the study's senior author Howa Yeung, MD, MSc, said in an interview.
  MDedge News, April 12, 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
• EAU 2024 Recurrent UTI Patients Find Long-Term Ally in Oral Vaccine A vaccine for urinary tract infection is effective for up to 9 years and can resolve cases in which antibiotics have failed.
  Medscape News UK, April 08, 2024
• Alert EMA Backs New Antibiotic for Complex Bacterial Infections Findings from two phase 3 trials demonstrate that the aztreonam-avibactam combination safely treats gram-negative bacterial infections.
  Medscape Medical News, March 22, 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