At-Home Remedies to Treat Ear Infections Maybe you’re not a fan of pain relievers or antibiotics and want to limit your or your child’s exposure to them. “Overuse of antibiotics in society ...

Salivary Gland Infection: Treatment Hydration and intravenous antibiotics may be necessary to keep a salivary gland infection from spreading to the deep tissues of the head and neck or to the ...

The review looked to see whether the use of antibiotics in women with bacterial vaginosis reduced the symptoms for women and reduced the incidence of babies being born too early. We identified 21 ...

The most commonly reported fomites are medical equipment. An infection control audit showed 3-way stopcocks on arterial lines had a contamination rate of 24.6%; the predominant organism was CONS ...

The single most effective intervention to decrease NI in the NICU is good hand hygiene. [58] New guidelines for hand hygiene in health care settings provide specific recommendations to improve ...

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A ...

Objectives To assess the causes of bacteraemia in young infants and susceptibility to first-line antibiotics (benzylpenicillin plus gentamicin) at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Malawi ...

The increasing production and use of bioplastics contribute to the accumulation of bioplastic debris in marine environments. The impact of such debris, particularly when combined with co-occurring ...

Now, overuse of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic may be making the problem worse. In the early months of the pandemic, when COVID-19 patients showed up with coughing, fever, shortness of ...

The 2022 ban on zinc oxide use on Danish pig farms has been followed by a sharp increase of antimicrobial use (AMU) on holdings, a study by Denmark’s ...

Proteins that evolved to regulate blood flow and healing may also double as natural antibiotics. If that's true, the human body may hold more built-in defenses than previously realized.