Antimicrobials News

ORLANDO — Patient education and more effective communication can help doctors from feeling forced to prescribe antibiotics for patients who do not need them, SHEA Spring attendees heard at a session during the conference’s first day.

HONOLULU — The results of a large observational study provided more evidence that receiving antibiotics in the first 2 years of life can increase a child’s risk for obesity, researchers reported.

HONOLULU — New study findings provided more promising data for primary care-based telehealth.

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s annual conference starts Sunday in the Sunshine State, a fitting locale considering this year’s themes of environmental impact and sustainability.

VIENNA — Interleukin-6 could help physicians diagnose sepsis early in children and pregnant women, according to a real-world study presented at the ESCMID Global meeting 2025.

VIENNA — More than 3 million children died from antimicrobial resistance-associated complications in 2022 across the globe, most of whom lived in Southeast Asia and Africa, according to findings presented at ESCMID Global 2025.

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.

Clostridioides difficile isolates with reduced fidaxomicin susceptibility may emerge during treatment and could spread to other patients, researchers found.