CHICAGO — Low-dose intraosseous regional administration of vancomycin in patients undergoing primary total knee arthroplasty produced four to five times the antibiotic concentration in subcutaneous ...

Once MRSA infection is diagnosed, limited options are available for treatment. Vancomycin (Vancocin ®), a glycopeptide antibiotic, is the drug of choice. The oral form of vancomycin is poorly absorbed ...

The antibiotic dalbavancin is as effective as vancomycin, the current standard-of-care antibiotic used to treat serious bacterial skin and skin-structure infections, research shows. The study results ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved The Medicines Co's single-dose intravenous drug to treat acute bacterial skin infections, the agency's third approval for the same condition ...