Meningitis can be a frightening diagnosis. Our expert guide breaks down the different types—bacterial, viral, and fungal—and ...

When patients need long-term treatment with IV antibiotics, hospitals usually let them do it at home — but not if they have a history of injection drug use. A Boston program wants to change that.

In this British study, 1054 patients were randomized to oral or IV antibiotic therapy after initiating treatment with IV drugs. Specific drugs were at the discretion of the treating physician—a ...

Published results showed oral antibiotics may be noninferior to IV antibiotics with respect to number of surgical interventions required within 1 year for patients with fracture-related infections ...

A recent cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association delved into managing gram-negative bloodstream infections (GN-BSIs) across 24 hospitals in the United States, ...

Among adults with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, treatment with 7 days of oral moxifloxacin is not noninferior to a combination of IV and oral antibiotics, researchers reported.

San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds had a tube removed Wednesday after receiving two weeks of intravenous antibiotics but will need to keep taking oral antibiotics to fight an infection in ...

Cellulitis treatment typically includes taking oral or IV antibiotics and keeping the area clean. This skin infection causes redness, pain, and swelling. Cellulitis is usually easy for a ...

Shifting to oral antibiotics from intravenous (IV) antibiotics is noninferior to continued IV administration in patients with infective endocarditis of the left side of the heart caused by ...

Oral antibiotics may be a safe alternative to receiving prolonged intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a recent observational study published in JAMA Network Open. Overall, 14.3% of patients ...