Many antibiotic labels contain warnings not to take them with alcohol. Learn more about the risks of drinking while taking ...

Steve Schwarz underwent spinal surgery, only to later succumb to MRSA due to discontinuation of antibiotics at a care home.

Steve Schwarz, 67, died from an MRSA infection after he stopped receiving antibiotics as prescribed. His family has been ...

As health care services begin offering doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), real-world evidence demonstrates that the postexposure strategy, called doxy PEP ...

[68,69] Doxycycline (a tetracycline ... may be beneficial in the treatment of TSS and SSTIs caused by CA-MRSA in adults. The development of anti-staphylococcal agents has predominately focused ...

Quarterly syphilis rates decreased from 1.7% prior to doxyPEP availability to 0.3% afterward, while quarterly chlamydia rates declined from 9.6% to 2%. Quarterly gonorrhea infections dropped from 10.2 ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(2):215-226. As with most mammalian bites, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (augmentin) is a reasonable empiric antibiotic in an ...

Using a common antibiotic following sex can dramatically reduce a person's risk of some sexually transmitted infections, a new study says. Advertisement Taking doxycycline within 72 hours after ...

The early rollout of doxyPEP — a dose of the antibiotic doxycycline after sex — has contributed to a decline in sexually transmitted infections in Northern California, according to a pair of studies ...