The relatively new antibiotic cefiderocol given in the form of eye drops may be a way to combat a type of ocular infection that broke out in the United States last year, according to research ...

Up to 56 percent of U.S. adults received inappropriate antibiotics for common bacterial respiratory infections between 2016 and 2018, according to findings from researchers at Washington University in ...

MRSA infections can cause problems throughout your body. This antibiotic-resistant type of staph is also a common cause of eye infections. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a type ...

Antibiotic resistance is a world-wide problem of systemic medicine, but it appears to be less problematic in the treatment of ophthalmic infections. The use of topical administration and intraocular ...

**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the congress if you ...

Doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use, researchers reported Thursday. More than two-thirds of U.S. children and ...