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New Treatment Guidelines for Candidiasis – A Major Document to Study

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In a much-quoted analysis, Lee found that most IDSA Guidelines were supported only by Level III quality data, the lowest category of evidence-based support[1]. The article concludes that more well-designed trials were needed, and clinical judgement should ultimately guide patient management. This all sounds fine and good, and the new Continue reading New Treatment Guidelines for Candidiasis – A Major Document to Study→

Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues

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80% of antibiotics worldwide are used in veterinary medicine. With only a minor fraction metabolized to inactive compounds, there are plenty of antibiotics excreted by farm animals in unchanged active form. These antibiotic residues are found in manure, in the soil onto which manure is sprayed, tilled in, or in the Continue reading Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues→

There is Momentum Building for RSV Therapeutics

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Sometimes – for no obvious reason – there is a flurry of publications from a particular area which has been quiet for a long time.  RSV is such an area where new drug development had a hard time getting started.  There was always the lure of big money: an infection Continue reading There is Momentum Building for RSV Therapeutics→