PrEP reduces the risk of getting HIV through sex by about 99% and injection drug use by at least 74%. Prophylactic antibiotics are avoided whenever possible in healthcare. The overuse of antibiotics ...

The short-lived success of teicoplanin as an alternative to vancomycin motivated pharmacologic investigators to develop different antibiotic approaches. The failure of glycopeptide antibiotics led ...

“Penicillin is, I would argue, the single most important medication that's ever been introduced,” said Robert Gaynes, an infectious disease physician and medical historian at Emory University. “It ...

1 The pan-Canadian action plan on AMR has outlined priority actions to respond to this threat in Canada, including antimicrobial stewardship.2 Antibiotic treatment duration has historically been fixed ...

MRSA's double defense against antibiotics Date: October 31, 2024 Source: University of Sheffield Summary: Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug Methicillin Resistant ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Half of the ...

Lyfius Pharma has inaugurated its state-of-the-art Penicillin-G (Pen- G) manufacturing facility at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh with an annual production capacity of 15,000 metric tonnes (MT).

The drugs can wreak havoc on your microbiome. Here’s what may be key to restoring it. Credit...Joyce Lee for The New York Times Supported by By Isobel Whitcomb Q: I was recently prescribed ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new oral antibiotic to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs). Orlynvah (sulopenem etzadroxil and probenecid) is a broad-spectrum ...

Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2009;2(6):661-672. Several semisynthetic glycopeptide antibiotics for example dalbavancin, telavancin and oritavancin, have been developed to serve as an alternative to ...