Fierce Healthcare

Despite IV Vancomycin’s Stronghold on the MRSA Antibiotic Hospital Market, Surveyed ID Specialists Report Shifting Away from IV Vancomycin to Branded Agents, Including Pfizer ...

Despite IV Vancomycin’s Stronghold on the MRSA Antibiotic Hospital Market, Surveyed ID Specialists Report Shifting Away from IV Vancomycin to Branded Agents, Including Pfizer’s Zyvox and ...
Healio

Intraosseous vancomycin given during THA showed higher concentrations vs. IV vancomycin

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . LAS VEGAS — Intraosseous vancomycin infusion during total hip arthroplasty was feasible for timely delivery of ...
Healio

Intraosseous vancomycin may reduce PJI risk in revision TKA

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed use of IV vancomycin was linked with a higher periprosthetic joint infection risk vs. use of ...
Science Daily

Use with caution: High doses of vancomycin fuel risk of kidney damage in children

Hospitalized children given high-dose intravenous infusions of the antibiotic vancomycin to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections face an increased risk for kidney damage -- an often reversible ...
USA Today

Leiters Health Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Vancomycin IV Bags, Phenylephrine IV Bags, and Fentanyl IV Bags Due to Potential for Superpotent Drug

January 5, 2024 – Englewood, Colorado, Leiters Health is voluntarily recalling 33 lots of products listed below to the user level. The recalled batches of vancomycin IV bags, phenylephrine IV bags, ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Leiters Health Recalls Multiple IV Drugs Due to Possible Superpotency

To date, the Company has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall. Leiters Health is voluntarily recalling 33 lots of vancomycin intravenous (IV) bags, phenylephrine IV bags, ...
Medindia

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

McKinnon and his team have found out the benefits of oral ZYVOX for the treatment of skin infections and pneumonia caused by bacterial infections. McKinnon and his team have found out the benefits of ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Antibiotic Combo Tx May Up Risk of Acute Kidney Injury in Children

(HealthDay News) — For hospitalized children, coadministration of intravenous (IV) vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam is associated with increased risk of acute ...
Forbes

Once-Weekly Vancomycin Challengers: Back To Nature 50 Years Later

Back-to-back papers in the June 5th issue of New England Journal of Medicine reported positive phase 3 clinical trial results for two new intravenous antibiotics in the treatment of nasty bacterial ...
Medscape

Vancomycin-Piperacillin-Tazobactam Combo Ups AKI Risk in Kids

Treating hospitalized children with the widely used combination antibiotic therapy of intravenous vancomycin hydrochloride and piperacillin-tazobactam (TZP) significantly increases their risk for ...
EurekAlert!

Data show ZYVOX is more effective and reduces costs

BOSTON, OCTOBER 1, 2004 – Treatment with ZYVOX® (linezolid injection, tablets and for oral suspension) for complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTIs) caused by suspected or proven ...