Antibiotic Stewardship

B.C. study finds only one-third of prescribing for female outpatients with uncomplicated cystitis was fully appropriate in terms of drug, dose and duration of therapy.

Dr. Nasia Safdar, a professor of infectious medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses why infection rates have gone up and how you can protect yourself as a hospital patient or visiting family member.

Blacklegged ticks are disease vectors carrying infections you might know less about.

Many stakeholders remain reluctant to embrace new roles for pharmacists. Despite this, I remain committed to advocating for the expanded role of pharmacists in healthcare, confident that continued education and collaboration will eventually lead to broader acceptance and integration.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control issues guidelines on the use of doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infection prevention.

More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control practices, officials said.

With the recent U.S. cases of the plague, here's what to know about the rare bacterial infection that never completely disappeared after the 14th century.

More than two-thirds of U.S. children and teens who saw a doctor for pink eye left with a prescription for antibiotic eye drops, new research has found.