The United States is set to roll out a powerful new weapon in the long fight against sexually transmitted infections: a decades-old antibiotic repurposed as a preventative pill.- Two-thirds reduction -
Reported cases of the three bacterial infections grew to 2.5 million in the United States in 2021, following about a decade of growth.
Patient education and counseling play a critical role in preventing C. difficile recurrence, and pharmacists are uniquely positioned to provide treatment recommendations, educate patients and health care providers, optimize transitions of care, and reduce the risk of recurrent CDI.
This randomized clinical trial compares the effect of continuous administration of meropenem vs intermittent administration on a composite outcome of mortality