Antibiotic prophylaxis

Antibiotic regimens

Antibiotic therapy

Antibiotic Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. Resistant organisms (they include bacteria, viruses and some parasi...

MRSA

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a family of bacteria with resistance to one or more major antibiotics. There are currently 17 different strains of MRSA. Two particular strains,...

NAD Refers Summers Labs Ointment Claim To FTC After J&J Challenge

Claims for Summers Labs’ Triple Paste diaper rash ointment spurred Desitin maker Johnson & Johnson to bring a challenge through the National Advertising Division. Summers disagreed with NAD’s...

Summers Labs Blasts NAD “Secret Rules” After J&J Ointment Claim Clash

Claims for Summers Labs’ Triple Paste diaper rash ointment spurred Desitin maker Johnson & Johnson to bring a challenge through the National Advertising Division. Summers disagreed with NAD’s...

Mom Was Right: Topical Antibiotics Help Boo-Boos Heal Better

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Minor, uncomplicated wounds – such as the typical cuts and scrapes of childhood – are less likely to become infected when kept cle...

Health Tip: Antibiotic Resistance Is Dangerous

-- Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in some way to survive despite a person's use of an antibiotic. Antibiotics are medications that fight a specific bacterial infection. Resistance m...

Researchers uncover why ointment and photodynamic therapy cause pain in skin cancer patients

Apply the ointment, light on, light off - that's how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However, the majority of patients suffer severe pain during the so-termed photodynami...

Time course of changes in ocular wavefront aberration after administration of eye ointment

Time course of changes in ocular wavefront aberration after administration of eye ointment Eye advance online publication, July 20, 2012. doi:10.1038/eye.2012.142 Authors: T Hiraoka, T Yama...

Honeybees harbor antibiotic-resistance genes

(American Society for Microbiology) Bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline, probably as a result of decades of preventive antibiotic use in domesticated...

Double the pain: Biologists find the cause of pain in the treatment of fair skin cancer

Apply the ointment, light on, light off – that's how easy it is to cure various forms of non-melanoma skin cancer. However, the majority of patients suffer severe pain during the so-termed photod...

In vivo effects of adjunctive tetracycline treatment on refractory corneal ulcers in dogs.

Objective-To evaluate effect of adjunctive treatment with tetracycline analogues on time to complete corneal reepithelialization in dogs with nonhealing (ie, refractory) corneal ulcers. Design-Randomi...

Short- and long-term safety assessment of a two-compound ointment containing calcipotriene/betamethasone dipropionate (Taclonex/Daivobet/Dovobet ointment): hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in patients with psoriasis vulgaris.

The two-compound ointment (Taclonex/Daivobet/Dovobet ointment) combining calcipotriene 50 microg/g and betamethasone 0.5 mg/g (as dipropionate) is very effective in the treatment of psoriasis vulgaris...

Homogeneity study of ointment dosage forms by infrared imaging spectroscopy.

Ointment dosage forms are semi-solid preparations intended for local or transdermal delivery of active substances usually for application to the skin and it is important that they present a homogeneou...

Conversion of Ctriple bondC to CO in alkynyl-metal complexes: oxidation of carbon chains capped by carbon-tricobalt clusters.

Treatment of Co(3)(mu(3)-CC[triple bond]CR)(mu-dppm)(CO)(7) with O(2) (air) in the presence of [FcH]PF(6) afforded Co(3){mu(3)-CC(O)R}(mu-dppm)(CO)(7) by the formal conversion -C[triple bond]C- + O-O...

Physicochemical properties of macrogol ointment and emulsion ointment blend developed for regulation of water absorption.

Pressure ulcers can form with excess pressure and shearing stress on skin tissue. Because pressure ulcer is often accompanies by exudates, selection of appropriate topical emulsion ointment is difficu...