Aerosolized antibiotics are theoretically attractive in an attempt to optimize lung concentrations of antibiotics. Limited data suggest that aerosolized aminoglycosides or colistin in addition to ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(11):993-1000. † Endotracheally instilled (ET) therapy alone vs intravenous therapy alone. ‡ ET sisomicin vs ET placebo. § Aerosolized tobramycin vs no ...

Aerosolized antibiotics have a central role in treating pulmonary infections in these patients. Until this year, the only FDA-approved inhaled option was tobramycin for inhalation solution (Tobi ...

Taking antibiotics for a viral infection like a cold or the flu (for which antibiotics are ineffective) is an example of misuse of antibiotics. Another example is giving antibiotics to healthy animals ...

Forty or fifty years ago, thanks to antibiotics, scientists thought medicine had all but eradicated infectious agents as a major health threat. Instead, the past two decades have seen an alarming ...

It is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine. Antibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs ...

E. Coli bacteria (in red) being grown on an agar plate. These bacteria are a common source of UTIs. © Scharvik via Getty No doubt about it, UTIs suck. They burn ...

Diarrhea is one of the most common antibiotic side effects. About 1 in 5 people who take antibiotics have loose stools, according to Mayo Clinic. Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria.

Main benefits: Reducing antibiotic use in animals benefits public health. However, on its own, this claim isn't adequately verified. Limitations: Weak verification requirements. • No standard ...

and capture the vast majority of aerosolized food particles at the same time," they wrote. A more likely risk, according to the authors, are errors in food avoidance -- for example, when food ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 31 patients will acquire at least one health care-associated infection (HAI)—including infections with antibiotic-resistant ...