Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers said patients who cannot complete 6 weeks of IV antibiotics for serious injection-related infections ...

Mary Warlo’s 6-month-old son, Calieb, has sickle cell disease. Infections that might only cause mild illnesses in other children could cause serious illness or worse in children with sickle cell.

Mary Warlo has been extremely worried lately. Her baby Calieb, who is six months old, has sickle cell disease. In early December he went for a few days without liquid penicillin, a medication that he ...

Penicillin G sodium 5million Units/mL; pwd for IM inj or continuous IV drip after reconstitution; contains sodium 1.68mEq per million Units. Bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, pericarditis, empyema, ...

BENZATHINE penicillin (N,N′-dibenzylethylenediamine dipenicillin G) is a long-acting repository penicillin that provides low serum penicillin levels for three or four weeks after a single ...

The question always arises when medication is given by mouth whether it actually reaches the patient's stomach, particularly in the amount and for the duration prescribed. There is more uncertainty in ...

When your child has an earache or a bad cold, it's hard to think that there's not much you can offer beyond Tylenol and sympathy. But most of those infections are mostly caused by viruses that don't ...

An examination of the health records of more than 330,000 children in two large pediatric primary care networks has raised concerns about the validity of penicillin allergy labels, according to a ...

A regular, affordable antibiotic treatment significantly reduced the risk of underlying rheumatic heart disease progression in children and adolescents, according to a new study. The research, led by ...

A new study published in the journal BMJ in February 2020 reports that macrolide or penicillin antibiotic consumption in pregnancy could be linked to several adverse health outcomes in children. These ...