The WHO recommends screening pregnant women for intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent early-onset Group B ...

In medical terms, the definition of "prophylaxis" is "preventative treatment against disease." The word comes from the Greek word phylax meaning “to guard.” Prophylactic treatment is used in ...

While infections pose a risk for morbidity and mortality among patients with MDS, more needs to be studied about the topic, ...

Purpose: The implications of recent studies for guidelines that pertain to stress ulcer prophylaxis in the postoperative period are discussed. Summary: The therapeutic guidelines on stress ulcer ...

The European Medicines Agency's (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended the granting of ...

In the latest supply deal on the active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) front, Gilead Sciences has tapped South Korea’s ...

Tocilizumab -- an interleukin (IL)-6 receptor inhibitor -- was approved by the FDA in 2017 for the treatment of severe or ...

PrEP can reduce the risk of sexually transmitted HIV infection by 99%. Discrimination and distrust are two barriers Black gay ...

A kitten has tested positive for rabies in Sauquoit. Four people were exposed to this kitten and received post exposure ...

HIV stigma, for the first time in five years, is on the decline in the United States, despite knowledge gaps in certain ...

Four people are undergoing post exposure prophylaxis after handing a kitten that turned out to be rabid. The Oneida County ...

Through decades of pioneering work on fighting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV, South African public health ...