Penicillin is the most commonly recommended therapy for group A streptococcal (GAS) pharyngitis. Although group A streptococcus has not developed resistance, antibiotic therapy fails to eradicate ...

Amoxicillin and penicillin (also known as penicillin V potassium or penicillin G) are widely prescribed antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections primarily of the ears, nose, throat, urinary ...

Judge Carl Nichols will temporarily block plans to put some 2,200 employees on paid leave and to recall nearly all agency ...

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.

Failure of antibiotics was defined as patients having a subsequent appendicectomy, and failure in the appendicectomy group was defined as patients having a normal appendix identified on pathology. A ...

Patient/carer expectations for antibiotics have been identified by the health professionals who participated in the programme as the most significant barrier to antimicrobial stewardship ...

The need for appendicectomy in 153 (14·6%) of 1050 patients in the antibiotics group within 30 days of initial drug treatment and a total of 356 (33·9%) within 1 year underscores the need for ...

If you've been diagnosed with an environmental Penicillium mold allergy, you might wonder if that means you could have a penicillin allergy or food allergies, too. An environmental mold allergy is ...

Though humanitarian aid was meant to be exempt, life-saving food and medicine shipments remain stuck in ports and warehouses, ...

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are promising novel antibiotics since they have shown antimicrobial activity against a wide ... where the electropositive charge of terminal residues of the peptide ...

Tuberculosis is on the rise in Mecklenburg County, but health officials say the overall risk to the public is still low.