A shorter course of prophylactic antibiotics, or even no course at all, appeared to be noninferior to longer courses in ...

Prophylactic antibiotic use before tunneled cuffed catheter insertion was not linked to a lower rate of early hemodialysis ...

Current guidelines for patients with cirrhosis and upper-GI bleeding recommend 5 to 7 days of antibiotic prophylaxis to ...

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine has challenged the current guideline recommending 5-7 days of preventive antibiotics ...

Pooled data show that no or shorter antibiotic prophylaxis for upper GI bleeding in cirrhosis is very likely noninferior to longer courses for all-cause mortality, challenging long-standing advice.

The proportion of members of the universal antibiotic prophylaxis group who experienced at least one infection during early-phase therapy was 13.1 percent, about 50 percent lower than the patients ...

Prior to the advent of cocktails of AIDS drugs, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was one of the leading killers of AIDS victims, and those with AIDS routinely took prophylactic antibiotics to ...

By searching PubMed from January 1966 to July 2008, using the key words "cesarean" and "antibiotic prophylaxis," the reviewers identified 277 articles. These were supplemented by a bibliographic ...

Dr. Esposito and his colleagues concluded, as they did in their 2008 study and meta-analysis, that routinely administering prophylactic antibiotics is advisable for patients undergoing routine ...

Editorial Archive Prophylactic Antibiotics in Measles Published October 20, 1955 N Engl J Med 1955;253: 705 - 706 ...

Some people carry C. diff bacteria in their intestines and never develop any symptoms, but antibiotics can make the bacteria turn deadly. The problem is that antibiotics not only wipe out bad bugs ...

Extended oral antibiotic prophylaxis eliminated UTIs after robot-assisted radical cystectomy procedures. Prophylactic antibiotics reduced overall infections by two-thirds and saved $9,000 per patient.