The Government is conducting a trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin drugs on a coronavirus patient admitted at Aga Khan Hospital Intensive Care Unit. According to the Director General in the ...

Background.Scabies is a public health problem in many countries, with impetigo and its complications important consequences. Ivermectin based mass drug administration (MDA) reduces the prevalence of ...

Twice-yearly mass distribution of azithromycin to children is a promising intervention to reduce childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization recommended restricting ...

Azithromycin for premature newborns requiring breathing support failed to improve rates of survival without moderate or severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia at 36 weeks' postmenstrual age, though it ...

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. said on Tuesday that U.S. regulators approved its generic version of an injectable form of Pfizer Inc.'s Zithromax antibiotic. The company plans ...

Three clinical trials have examined the efficacy and safety of single dose azithromycin (30 mg/kg) in children with uncomplicated acute otitis media (AOM). In the first trial, a small pilot study, the ...

Scrub typhus is a life-threatening zoonotic bacterial infection. In this randomized, controlled trial, combination therapy with doxycycline and azithromycin led to better outcomes than either drug ...

Community-wide distribution of azithromycin to both infants and children in Niger was effective in preventing deaths, but communities where only infants received the drug had no decrease in mortality, ...

February 16, 2012 — A single oral dose of azithromycin is as effective as injected benzathine benzylpenicillin for treating yaws among children living in Papua New Guinea, according to the findings of ...

A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those ...