Pharmacology News

Moxidectin was noninferior to ivermectin for patients with strongyloidiasis, according to data published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

One in four adults relied solely on medications to manage chronic pain, highlighting an opportunity to increase use of nonpharmacologic therapies, particularly in men, older adults and those with public insurance, according to researchers.

PHILADELPHIA — Automatic referrals of eligible patients not already prescribed statins to a centralized pharmacy service via email increased prescriptions of any statin by 16 percentage points compared with usual care, a speaker reported.

Inappropriate antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria is common in critical access hospitals, researchers reported.

Injections of botulinum toxin were associated with greater improvements in isolated and essential head tremor at 18 weeks compared with placebo, according to data from a randomized trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

FDA has eliminated the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) programs for Lotronex (alosetron hydrochloride) and approved generics.

Nearly half of patients who responded to a survey said they stop antibiotic treatment early, usually because they feel better, and three-quarters said they keep the leftover antibiotics, often intending to use them in the future.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

BOSTON — A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is effective against early syphilis regardless of HIV status, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

BOSTON — In this Healio video exclusive, Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH, discusses the use of low-dose colchicine to target inflammation in patients who remain at high CVD risk despite controlled LDL.