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Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Significantly Reduces Surgical Site Infections After the Whipple Procedure

The broad-spectrum antibiotic piperacillin-tazobactam used as perioperative prophylaxis significantly reduced surgical site infection (SSI) in patients undergoing open pancreatoduodenectomy (PD, or ...
MedPage Today

Methenamine Hippurate Could Be Alternative Treatment for Recurrent UTI

The urinary antiseptic methenamine hippurate (Hiprex) was non-inferior to antibiotic prophylaxis in women with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI), according to results from the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Prophylaxis versus Episodic Treatment to Prevent Joint Disease in Boys with Severe Hemophilia

Methods We randomly assigned young boys with severe hemophilia A to regular infusions of recombinant factor VIII (prophylaxis) or to an enhanced episodic infusion schedule of at least three doses ...
Medscape

Prophylaxis Against PJP in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis Also Cuts Risk for Other Serious Infections

Prophylactic treatment with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) significantly reduced the risk for serious infections by approximately 50% in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody ...
MarketWatch

Mim8 prophylaxis treatment shown to be well-tolerated when switching from emicizumab in people with hemophilia A in new phase 3 data presented at the ISTH 2025 Congress

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. -- New FRONTIER5 results show a direct switch to investigational Mim8 (denecimig) prophylaxis treatment from ...