Second Chance on Bladder US
“If you are given a second chance in life, don’t blow it,” you advise your eager resident. It has been an overwhelmingly busy day in the department. Interspersed between the motor vehicle collisions, hypoxic and hypotensive CHF exacerbations, and patients with florid sepsis, your team is trying to see and help all of the ankle pains, throat pains, and dysuria that have also walked through the waiting room doors. The neighborhood clinics are completely overbooked, and your department has been dealing with the overflow all week.
Your resident has three charts in her hand and has just finished presenting the two sicker ...
Source: EPMonthly.com - September 19, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Logan Plaster Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Lupin arm gets tentative FDA nod for anti-bacterial drug
Gavis has received tentative approval for its Azithromycin for oral suspension USP from the USFDA, Lupin said in a BSE filing. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - September 1, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Malaria-Like Parasite From Ticks Spreading To U.K. Through Dogs
Mepron, a thick liquid antimicrobial drug used to treat Babesia and malaria, as well as a fungal infection called Pneumocystitis carinii.
In 2011, the United Kingdom stopped requiring that dogs brought into the country be inspected for ticks. Earlier this year, several dogs tested positive for babesia, a malaria-like disease transmitted to ticks that previously had only been found in foreign. These dogs had never left the U.K.
While babesiosis is a new worry to U.K. dog owners, it's been a threat to human beings for years -- it just hasn't become a health-scare-of-the-week like Zika, West Nile, avian and swine flu. Most...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
"It's A Scandal" -Daryl Hall on Doctors Denying Chronic Lyme
Growing up a musically-obsessed child in the 80's, Daryl Hall was one of my biggest inspirations. A masterful, inventive songwriter with an ocean of soul, he set me on the path to being an artist, to never waste a word, and to sing because I mean it.
With six number ones and five additional top ten hits throughout the 70's and 80's Daryl Hall and John Oates are the number one duo in music history. Still at the top of his game at 69 years old, Daryl has won legions of new fans with his hit MTV Live show Live From Daryl's House.
In February of 2015, at my very sickest from chronic Lyme and Bartonella, after it was missed b...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 22, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea Is A Looming Threat
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday that Neisseria gonorrhoeae ― that is, the bacteria that causes gonorrhea ― could be developing resistance to our last-line antibiotics that treat it.
The CDC’s current gold standard treatment for gonorrhea is a combination of two drugs, azithromycin and ceftriaxone, to ensure that if one drug doesn’t kill the bacteria, the other will finish the job. Now, a rise in antibiotic resistance among these two bacteria since 2014 has experts worried.
“History has taught us that this bacteria has the ability to develop resistance to...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 19, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Antibiotic resistance raising the specter of 'untreatable gonorrhea'
The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, one of the most common among Americans, is becoming resistant to azithromycin - a main recommended treatment. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Sexual Health / STDs Source Type: news
Study finds emergence of azithromycin-resistant gonorrhea
Resistance to azithromycin and to a lesser degree cephalosporin antibiotics was observed in patients with gonorrhea, according to an analysis of 2014 data from a national surveillance system,
“It is unclear whether these increases mark the beginning of trends, but emergence of cephalosporin and... (Source: Skin and Allergy News)
Source: Skin and Allergy News - July 16, 2016 Category: Dermatology Source Type: news
This STD could get a lot harder to treat
For patients with gonorrhea, a two-drug antibiotic punch is the usual recommended treatment, but new research found the sexually transmitted infection is less vulnerable to one of these drugs: azithromycin. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This month ’s toughest USMLE Step 2 question to master
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Source: AMA Wire - June 28, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
This month’s toughest USMLE Step 2 question to master
Getting ready for the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) Step 2 is no easy feat, but we’re sharing expert insights to help give you a leg up. Take a look at the exclusive scoop on this month’s most-missed USMLE Step 2 test prep question. Think you have what it takes to rise above your peers? Test your USMLE knowledge, and view an expert video explanation of the answer from Kaplan Medical.
Once you’ve got this question under your belt, be sure to test your knowledge with other posts in this series.
Ready. Set. Go.
This month’s question that stumped most students:
A 70-year-old woman pre...
Source: AMA Wire - June 28, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Zmax (Azithromycin) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - June 7, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Zithromax Injection (Azithromycin) - updated on RxList
(Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs)
Source: RxList - New and Updated Drug Monographs - June 7, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
Azithromycin fails to ameliorate treatment-resistant cough
Azithromycin does not appear to be an effective agent for those with treatment-resistant cough, but may be useful in treating those with comorbid asthma, according to the results of a study published... (Source: Family Practice News)
Source: Family Practice News - May 11, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Long-Term Antibiotic Use For Some With COPD
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and my doctor is recommending an antibiotic drug long term. Why is this needed? ANSWER: For certain people with COPD, long-term use of an antibiotic drug — specifically azithromycin (Zithromax) — is a fairly new option to reduce exacerbations. Exacerbations are episodes when symptoms of COPD [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - May 9, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Azithromycin versus amoxicillin preoperative prophylaxis?
For those of you who use an antibiotic prophylaxis prior to implant installation, what is your opinion of using amoxicillin versus azithromycin. (Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts)
Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts - April 25, 2016 Category: Dentistry Authors: osseonews Tags: Dental Implants Q&A Implant News Source Type: news
