Antibiotic

As eye care practitioners, we seek to preserve the vision and ocular health of our patients — we are the gatekeepers who can find eye disease before it progresses. Just as we are vigilant in looking for early stage glaucoma, we must also look for dry eye disease, even in asymptomatic patients.

Eyevance Pharmaceuticals has acquired Tobradex ST and Natacyn from Novartis, according to a press release.

Recently updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-associated pneumonia, or CAP, stressed the importance of de-escalation of antibiotic therapy and made stricter recommendations on when to use broad-spectrum antibiotics for the treatment of patients with CAP and risk factors for drug-resistant organisms.

A group of biomedical engineers and medical students calling themselves HIVE developed an innovative solution to help patients and doctors optimize outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, or OPAT, landing them the $10,000 top prize at this year’s IDWeek IDea Incubator competition.

Although the current approach to incentivizing antibiotic development has led to the creation of effective treatments, the pipeline has collapsed numerous times, leaving clinicians stranded against increasingly resistant infections, according to an article published the Annals of Internal Medicine.

It is still common for antibiotics to be dispensed without a prescription at community pharmacies throughout China, though the practice is less prevalent in chain pharmacies, in urban areas and in places where a pharmacist is on duty, according to a recently published study.

WASHINGTON — The investigational microbiota-based drug, RBX2660, safely and effectively prevented recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, or rCDI, and demonstrated clinical durability 2 years after treatment, according to findings from the PUNCH open-label study presented at IDWeek.

WASHINGTON — Multidrug-resistant Salmonella was detected twice as often in samples of meat from conventionally-raised chicken and turkeys compared with antibiotic-free or organic poultry, according to findings from a study conducted in Pennsylvania.

DENVER — At the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting, William T. Obremskey, MD, spoke about the use of local antibiotics in orthopedic trauma patients for infection prevention or treatment. He said local antibiotics may provide long-term infection prevention.

The prevalence of lower airway infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Haemophilus influenzae among young children with cystic fibrosis has decreased significantly during the past 2 decades, according to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.