Azithromycin

BOSTON — Macrolides likely reduce severe exacerbations and improve quality of life and asthma control among patients with asthma, according to a presentation at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

It is autumn on the North Coast. Longer nights lead to deeper insights as we contemplate the winter solstice. As usual, I am thinking dry eye. It is, as they say, how I roll.

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.

For patients with COPD who experienced an exacerbation in the last 12 months, add-on azithromycin therapy was deemed cost-effective, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The addition of azithromycin to daily trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole treatment among pregnant women with HIV did not reduce the rate of malaria or bacterial sexually transmitted infections at delivery, data show.

Opioid and teratogenic medication prescriptions decreased and prescriptions for medications for diabetes and mental health conditions increased among pregnant women after 2010 in the U.S., researchers reported.

Treating infants with azithromycin at well-child visits did not reduce mortality during a yearslong study in Burkina Faso, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Use of azithromycin was associated with acute heart failure among patients with a history of CVD hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with standard care, researchers in Europe reported.

Compared with patients on dialysis who received amoxicillin-based treatment, those who received azithromycin treatment were at an increased risk for sudden cardiac death, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Azithromycin showed equivalent efficacy to doxycycline in treating moderate to severe meibomian gland dysfunction, with reduced dosing and potentially fewer gastrointestinal adverse events, a study found.