Antimicrobials News

In 2014, the CDC established The Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship to help hospitals improve their prescribing practices. Over the next 2 years, it also published guidance for nursing homes and the outpatient setting.

I completed medical school and internal medicine residency in the years immediately before protease inhibitors against HIV reached the clinic.

The ACP has released its first-ever guidelines for diagnosing, managing and preventing recurrence of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis.

Patients with serious injection-related infections who are discharged on oral antibiotic regimens can be adherent to the medicine but need “substantial” outpatient support, researchers found.

The rate of antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory infections “decreased modestly” between 2011 and 2018, according to researchers, who noted that still more reductions are needed.

A partnership between a hospital system and a community detoxification facility led to significant reductions in lengths of stay and costs without increasing readmission or mortality rates among people who inject drugs, findings showed.

For years, we have been asking you to tell us why you chose a career in infectious diseases, a specialty whose importance has hardly been more apparent. We continue to be captivated by the stories you tell.

We compiled a list of the 10 most-read Healio | Infectious Disease News articles from 2021.

My first infectious diseases paper was published when I was 7 months old. Before I was even capable of creating memories and while I was still crawling, my relationship with infectious diseases was off and running.

Stories that focused on emerging research and breaking news related to COVID-19 dominated headlines in 2021.