Antibiotics for pneumonia include Zithromax (azithromycin), Biaxin (clarithromycin), and Erythrocin (erythromycin). Azithromycin is often the first-line treatment since it is effective against many ...

Pneumonia and urinary tract infections are the two most common infections requiring hospitalizations and major reasons for the overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics. While UTIs require 480,000 ...

Nearly 25 percent of adult patients treated for pneumonia with antibiotics in an outpatient setting do not respond to the treatment, suggest the findings from a study presented during the 2017 ...

In our current health care environment, hospitals and health care providers are challenged to provide a high standard of care in a more efficient way. Multiple evidence-based practice guidelines ...

Recent research conducted by a team at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School debunks conventional wisdom regarding where is best to treat elderly pneumonia patients. The U-M study ...

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