New recommendations have been added to highlight that antibiotic treatment should be started as soon as possible – no more than four hours after diagnosis and one hour if sepsis is suspected.
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Public Health England (PHE) have published draft guidance on antimicrobial prescribing for hospital-acquired and community-acquired pneumonia, setting out a strategy designed to optimise antibiotic use and reduce antibiotic resistance.
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MSD is gearing up to file antibiotic Zerbaxa on both sides of the Atlantic for certain forms of pneumonia on the success of a late-stage trial backing its safety and efficacy.
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Advisors to the US Food and Drug Administration have narrowly backed approval of Cempra’s new antibiotic solithromycin as a treatment for community acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP).
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Hospital deaths from the most common form of pneumonia dropped 14 percent between 2009 and 2015, according to new research published online in Thorax, the journal of the British Thoracic Society (BTS)
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