Here's what you need to know about Group B strep in pregnancy, including testing, treatment, and how it might impact your ...

The highest risk categories, "urgent" and "serious," require more monitoring and prevention activities than those in the "concerning" group. The list is re-evaluated periodically and modified as new ...

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

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.

936 patients were randomly assigned to treatment groups, and primary outcome data were available for 846. Gender and age were matched among the antibiotic group (63·6% boys, median age of participants ...

The use of antibiotics on UK dairy farms has fallen by almost a fifth within the past five years, according to an annual report.

In today's era of antibiotic-free poultry production, feed and water additives provide producers with an alternative method to improve poultry health and ...

The endTB trial is one of four recent randomized controlled trials testing new, shorter, and less toxic treatment regimens ...

Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Barker, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK; ...

Objectives In the intensive care unit (ICU), antibiotics are often given longer than recommended in guidelines ... It has not been vetted by BMJ Publishing Group Limited (BMJ) and may not have been ...

The participants were offered £60 to acknowledge their contribution. Are there any social norms or group pressures that affect your professional practice with regards to AB prescribing and how? Has ...