A study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, compared broad-spectrum and narrow-spectrum antibiotics in the treatment of children with common respiratory infections.

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America published a guideline in 2011 detailing recommended treatment for children with community-acquired pneumonia ...

Clinical outcomes among adult inpatients were no worse when broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was delayed vs started early, challenging the belief that overly broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy ...

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are used more generally when the organism is unknown, exacerbating AMR. The UK government report, published in 2016, recommended testing for pathogens before prescribing and ...

Among adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting, broad-spectrum antibiotics vs macrolide monotherapy were associated with an increased risk for adverse drug events.

Pneumonia, shown in this x-ray image, accounts for more than 1 million hospitalizations in the U.S. annually. New scientific evidence suggests that doctors should reconsider using drugs that target ...

Adolescents treated with doxycycline were up to one third less likely to develop schizophrenia as adults, a Finnish study ...