Guidelines recommend against use of midline catheters for vancomycin-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), but evidence supporting the guidance is limited. This retrospective study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, this finding did not reach statistical significance, the researchers noted. “This is the first ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(6):657-667. The impact of combination therapy upon the need for aggressive vancomycin dosing was not discussed in the guidelines but a recent review failed to find ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(6):657-667. The relationship between MRSA vancomycin MIC and mortality in vancomycin-treated patients with hospital acquired pneumonia, ventilator-associated ...

The prescribed dosage for ondansetron may vary depending on a person’s individual treatment plan. Factors such as your medical history and other medications you take may also affect your dosage of ...

Objective: Current guidelines recommend vancomycin concentrations of 10–20 μg/mL for most infections, with higher levels (15–20 μg/mL) suggested for severe cases. However, evidence supporting these ...

An antibiotic used to treat infective diarrhea could be an effective drug for a type of inflammatory bowel disease, a new study has found. Results published in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- InsightRX – the leader in Bayesian model-informed precision dosing (MIPD) software – today announced it will present two research abstracts at ACoP15 2024, ...

Staphylococcus aureus has the potential to develop durable vancomycin resistance, according to a new study. Staphylococcus aureus has the potential to develop durable vancomycin resistance, according ...

Vancomycin resistance mutations enable bacteria to grow in the presence of vancomycin, but they do so at a cost. Vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strains grow more slowly and will often lose ...

Everyone needs a little pick-me-up to get through a long day now and then. If your go-to self-care "treats" aren't quite cutting it anymore—maybe your regular Thursday afternoon donut is no longer ...