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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→

Dalbavancin Approval Issues: A Case of Much Ado About Nothing

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Dalbavancin has changed hands a few times in its development history, moving from Lilly to Vicuron, then Pfizer and ultimately Durata. The original NDA for dalbavancin was submitted to FDA on Dec. 21, 2004.  Pfizer acquired dalbavancin as a “Phase 3 completed” drug ready for world-wide marketing on June 15, 2005. The Continue reading Dalbavancin Approval Issues: A Case of Much Ado About Nothing→

Meropenem Dosing for VAP: High + Prolonged Beats Conventional Dosing

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Sometimes an article pops up addressing a question we have been mulling over for quite some time.  It so happened with a recent publication which shed new light on penem dosing for ICU patients[1]. Conducted at a single Belgian centre (sic!), a standard dose of meropenem (1 g IV q8h Continue reading Meropenem Dosing for VAP: High + Prolonged Beats Conventional Dosing→