It's long been known that popping the antibiotic doxycycline within 72 hours of a risky sexual encounter can greatly reduce a person's risk for a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Mortality ...

Despite a high overall cure rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, 1 to 2 percent of children die from primarily infection-related complications in the first month of ...

Over a decade-and-a-half that saw major changes to guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis, rates of infective endocarditis (IE) remained stable in California and New York, with some changes in patterns ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During my residency and fellowship training in the 1970s, the two most dreaded complications of cataract surgery ...

A shorter course of prophylactic antibiotics, or even no course at all, appeared to be noninferior to longer courses in patients with cirrhosis and upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a systematic ...

After the American Heart Association (AHA) released more restrictive recommendations regarding antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis (IE) in 2007, there was a concerning decline in ...

A Cochrane meta-analysis published online in July concluded that preoperative antibiotics prevent failure of dental implants. Even so, controversy still exists over whether all implant patients should ...

Craig JC, Simpson JM, Williams GJ, et al; for the Prevention of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection in Children with Vesicoureteric Reflux and Normal Renal Tracts (PRIVENT) Investigators Experience ...

Nearly one third (32.9%) of hospitalized children received antibiotics prophylactically, and 51.8% of those children were given broad-spectrum antibiotics, according to findings published online March ...

Lyme disease outcome and survival. Researchers conducted a meta-analysis to determine whether antibiotic prophylaxis is effective in the prevention of Lyme disease. The use of antibiotics as a ...

Current guidelines recommend 5 to 7 days of broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis for upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis. In a systematic review and meta-analysis, shorter ...