Otiprio (Ciprofloxacin Otic Suspension) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - December 23, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
FDA OKs Otiprio for Kids Getting Tympanostomy Tube PlacementFDA OKs Otiprio for Kids Getting Tympanostomy Tube Placement
Ciprofloxacin otic suspension is indicated for children with bilateral otitis media with effusion undergoing tympanostomy tube placement. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics News Alert Source Type: news
Let's Give Thanks and Hope We Haven't Lost the War Against Superbugs
Our holiday season has begun with an ominous report: In China, bacteria with a dangerous new antibiotic-resistance gene have spread from livestock to people. This gene bestows resistance against colistin -- an antibiotic that has become our last hope for treating people infected with some of the worst superbugs. The scariest part is that the gene can make copies of itself and then jump between bacteria. History shows us that these mobile resistance genes can spread around the world quickly, silently hitchhiking in the guts of people and animals or on the surface of food. Consequently, this could be our last Thanksgiving wh...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 24, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
FDA Advisers Recommend Stronger Warnings on Fluoroquinolones (FREE)
By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH
An FDA advisory panel voted late last week to recommend stronger label warnings on fluoroquinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin) when used to treat sinus … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - November 8, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
I-Team: Mass. Families To Share Antibiotic Horror Stories With FDA
BOSTON (CBS) – Fluoroquinolones are a powerful family of antibiotics that can save lives. In serious cases, doctors often don’t have other options.
But as the I-Team first reported last year, these drugs can often cause debilitating side effects. Critics maintain they are over-prescribed.
On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting to consider changing how these drugs are used. Massachusetts families plan on attending to share how these drugs devastated them.
Nick Newell will tell federal regulators how his brother Ollie started a downward spiral after taking several doses of Ciprofloxacin. It...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health i-Team Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen Fluoroquinolones Lauren Leamanczyk Source Type: news
Population Dynamics Analysis of Ciprofloxacin-Persistent S. Typhimurium Cells in a Mouse Model for Salmonella Diarrhea
In vivo, antibiotics are often surprisingly inefficient at eliminating bacterial pathogens. In the case of ciprofloxacin therapy in a Salmonella enterica subspecies 1 serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium, S. Tm) mouse infection model, this has been traced to tolerant bacterial cells surviving in lymph node monocytes (i.e., classical dendritic cells). To analyze the growth characteristics of these persisters, we have developed a population dynamics approach using mixtures of wild-type isogenic tagged strains (WITS) and a computational model. Here, we are providing a detailed description of the inoculum, the infection experim...
Source: Springer protocols feed by Immunology - October 16, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: news
Updates to the Adult and Adolescent Opportunistic Infections Guidelines
The Bacterial Enteric Infections section of the Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents was recently updated. This update provides new data on ciprofloxacin resistance in Shigella sonnei and improved clinical success when Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is treated with vancomycin. Limited data suggest fecal microbiota therapy for recurrent CDI may be safe and successful in HIV-infected patients.
(Source: AIDSinfo At-a-Glance: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research, A Service of the U.S. Department of Health and...
Source: AIDSinfo At-a-Glance: Offering Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research, A Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - August 28, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
NPPA brings 39 more drugs under price control
The prices of formulations including Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride, Cefotaxime, Paracetamol, Domperidone and Metformin+Glimepiride have been fixed. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 16, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
NPPA fixes price of 39 drug formulation packs
As per the notification the prices of formulations including Ciprofloxacin Hydrochloride, Cefotaxime, Paracetamol, Domperidone and Metformin+Glimepiride has been fixed. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - July 15, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
So You Actually Drank the Water During Your Vacation?
(MedPage Today) -- Should you carry Cipro in your suitcase when traveling? It depends (Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine)
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - June 21, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news
CDC Issues Advisory About Multi-Drug Resistant Shigellosis (FREE)
By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH
The CDC is increasingly seeing shigellosis that's resistant to ciprofloxacin or azithromycin, as well as other antimicrobials, the agency warned in a health alert … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - June 8, 2015 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Growing Concern Over Drug-Resistant Shigella in USGrowing Concern Over Drug-Resistant Shigella in US
Recent outbreaks of Shigellosis in the United States that are resistant to ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, and other antibiotics prompts a Health Alert Network advisory from federal health officials. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Some GPs still prescribing ciprofloxacin for gonorrhoea
(Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News)
Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - June 1, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Doctors prescribing antibiotics for gonorrhea that no longer work
GPs give patients ciprofloxacin, which has not been recommended since 2005, raising fears that drug-resistant forms of sexually transmitted disease will spread Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 28, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Health editor Tags: Gonorrhoea Drug resistance Chlamydia Sexual health Society NHS GPs Doctors Science Antibiotics UK news Source Type: news
Resistant E coli Colonization Not Rare in Healthy FamiliesResistant E coli Colonization Not Rare in Healthy Families
Although relatively few submitted stools were positive for ciprofloxacin-resistant E coli, one third of healthy families had a member who tested positive over the course of 2.5 years. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
