Antibiotics

FDA recommends that health care providers practice caution before prescribing clarithromycin to patients with heart disease due to potentially fatal long-term risks.

One agency estimates that at least 50% of all antibiotic prescriptions written in the United States do not fall under currently accepted practice guidelines.

Efforts to curb antimicrobial resistance have hit a brick wall in India, where new research finds unapproved drug combinations are rampant.

Dr. Richard Vickers, discusses what the next steps are for Summit Therapeutic’s ridinilazole.

Marin H. Kollef, MD, discusses what to consider when calling for cultures.

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The broad-spectrum investigational antibiotic has been developed for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections.

Superbugs resistant to colistin – a last-resort antibiotic – may have a new foe in octapeptins, antibiotics discovered decades ago that recently have been found to be effective against multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has awarded Motif Bio with $120,000 that will fund in vitro testing for the development of iclaprim to benefit patients with cystic fibrosis who have lung infections.

The FDA has approved Allergan's sNDA to expand the approved use of AVYCAZ (ceftazidime and avibactam), to include the treatment of hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) caused by certain susceptible Gram-negative microorganisms.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released its first report on antibiotic resistance surveillance data.

Historically, postoperative pulmonary complications have been the most common serious adverse event following upper abdominal surgery, with incidence rates ranging from 10% to 50%.

Dr. Richard Vickers, explains how ridinilazole affected the gut microbiome in participants of a phase 2 study.

More than $2 billion was invested in research and development relevant to the issue of antimicrobial resistance in 2016 alone.