Treating patients at home with IV antibiotics, rather than in a clinical setting, could halve costs to the NHS and relieve pressure on hospital beds - according to a University of East Anglia study.

BOSTON — Two mornings a week, Arthur Jackson clears space on half of his cream-colored sofa. He sets out a few rolls of tape and some gauze, then waits for a knock on his front door. “This is Brenda’s ...

Treating patients at home with IV antibiotics, rather than in a clinical setting, could halve costs to the NHS and relieve pressure on hospital beds – according to a University of East Anglia study.

A recent cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association delved into managing gram-negative bloodstream infections (GN-BSIs) across 24 hospitals in the United States, ...

Over the past decade, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has seen an increase in the number of highly complex infections. That's related to a few different factors. First, the population ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer than 6% were “early switchers,” despite this being associated with a shorter duration of antibiotics and ...

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 ...

Thinking about using an at-home antibiotic kit? Before you do, learn why self-treating could put your health—and the ...

Switching to oral therapy after an initial course of intravenous antibiotics for infective endocarditis proved as effective as continuing intravenous treatment, with no increase in failure rates and ...

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 ...

ATLANTA -- Oral tebipenem pivoxil (TBP-PI) was non-inferior to IV imipenem-cilastatin (IMI-CIL) for treating complicated urinary tract infections (cUTI), including acute pyelonephritis (AP), according ...