As health officials continue to battle an intravenous drug use–related HIV outbreak in a rural county in Indiana, the Centers for Disease Control an... More »
The United States is currently experiencing an outbreak of shigellosis caused by a strain of the Shigella sonnei bacteria that is resistant to ciprofl... More »
Clindamycin and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole are similarly safe and effective for treating uncomplicated skin infections, including both cellulitis a... More »
SILVER SPRING, MD.– Two components of the trivalent and quadrivalent influenza vaccines used during the current season should be replaced for the 20... More »
The estimated 453,000 infections and 29,300 deaths caused by Clostridium difficile in the United States in 2011 underline the importance of appropriat... More »
The Clostridium difficile bacterium resulted in nearly 500,000 infections and 29,000 deaths in the United States in 2011, Dr. Fernanda C. Lessa and he... More »
SILVER SPRING, MD. – A novel treatment for invasive aspergillosis and invasive mucormycosis gained the support of a Food and Drug Administration adv... More »
A risk stratification model that determined whether patients with Crohn’s disease needed computed tomography cut scans of these patients in emergency departments by 43%, with a miss rate of only...
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the injectable antibiotic oritavancin (Orbactiv) to treat adults with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections that might be caused by...
Only a minority of patients with longstanding inflammatory bowel disease – 19% of those with Crohn’s disease and 11% of those with ulcerative colitis – report having moderate to severe disability,...