The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday reported a shortage of an injectable form of penicillin, an antibiotic used to treat syphilis and other bacterial infections like strep throat. The drug ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Oral penicillin may be safer than the injectable option for people with rheumatic heart disease who are at high ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers said patients who cannot complete 6 weeks of IV antibiotics for serious injection-related infections ...

Penicillin G sodium 5million Units/mL; pwd for IM inj or continuous IV drip after reconstitution; contains sodium 1.68mEq per million Units. Bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, pericarditis, empyema, ...

IN PREVIOUS reports, we 1–3 have shown that after a single injection of a suspension of calcium penicillin in beeswax and peanut oil, effective levels of penicillin can be maintained in the blood for ...

DALLAS, Jan. 20, 2022 – A growing body of evidence indicates that some people thought to have an allergic response to injectable penicillin, the standard treatment for rheumatic heart disease, may ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...