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Brief Hospitalization and Pulse Oximetry for Predicting Amoxicillin Treatment Failure in Children with Severe Pneumonia
OBJECTIVE. In settings with limited assessment tools, we sought to determine whether early clinical signs and symptoms and blood oxygen saturation would predict amoxicillin treatment failure in children with severe pneumonia (as...
Familiar drugs can cause bad reactions
Most people dread a trip to the emergency room. First, there’s the trauma and anxiety of whatever brought them there -- chest pain, uncontrolled bleeding or perhaps a broken bone.
Drug reactions fill ERs, report says
Federal study finds allergies, accidental overdoses affect 700,000 each year.
Combinations containing amoxicillin–clavulanate and tetracycline are inappropriate for Helicobacter pylori eradication despite high in vitro susceptibility
Background: The purpose of the present paper was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of amoxicillin–clavulanate and tetracycline-based quadruple therapy as an alternative second-line treatment for H. pylori infection.
Efficacy of once-daily Avelox for complicated abdominal infections highlighted at ICAAC
The efficacy of monotherapy with the once-daily, broad-spectrum antibiotic AVELOX (moxifloxacin HCl) in the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI) was highlighted in two clinical data presentations by...