USA: The management of fracture-related infections (FRIs) often involves prolonged antibiotic therapy, with intravenous (IV) ...

In the largest trial of its kind, patients receiving oral versus intravenous (IV) antibiotics for fracture-related infections ...

If you believe your tooth infection is life-threatening, you should seek medical assistance immediately. What is the ...

Current guidelines recommend that children with acute pyelonephritis are initially treated with a parenteral third-generation cephalosporin such as ceftriaxone, and then oral antibiotics.

Antibiotics are widely used in many dental procedures, therapeutically or prophylactically. However, not all those uses of antibiotics are supported by evidence. In addition, antimicrobial therapy for ...

Most dental patients with heart disease do not need antibiotics before dental procedures to prevent infective endocarditis (IE), a rare, but life-threatening heart infection. Based on a review ...

The COVID-19 pandemic likely caused a rise in antibiotic use in dentistry, disrupting a previous decline, as rates have since remained high, according to research recently published in the Journal of ...