Antibiotic

The link between antibiotic use in infancy and childhood asthma has been investigated, revealing a higher risk for asthma with antibiotics, but there remains a question of how the microbiome underlies this, according to a press release.

Neurotrophic keratitis is well explored in the cover story of this issue of Healio | OSN.

Antibiotic use was not associated with incident dementia, cognitive impairment with no dementia or accelerated cognitive decline among a large cohort of healthy Australian older adults, according to a post-hoc analysis of the ASPREE trial.

According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

LOS ANGELES — David J. Weber, MD, MPH, weighed in on findings from the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s featured oral abstract at IDWeek.

Pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia spent less time in the hospital and receiving IV antibiotics when visited by a medical clown, according to a presentation at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

Mass antibiotic administration to children in sub-Saharan Africa reduced mortality rates, but there was little benefit when dosing was limited to infants aged 1 to 11 months, as recommended by WHO, according to results from the AVENIR trial.

Among ventilated ICU patients with suspected infection, the length of antibiotic use went down after respiratory viral panel testing was adopted, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.