Draining simple skin abscesses in combination with antibiotic treatment is more effective than drainage alone, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers ...

In addition to surgical drainage, does antibiotic therapy improve the overall management of a skin abscess? A randomized trial was carried out in five hospital emergency departments comparing simple ...

Antibiotics in conjunction with incision and drainage improved short-term outcomes compared with incision and drainage alone. Patients with a simple abscess who received clindamycin or ...

Skin and soft tissue infections are characterized by invasion of a bacterial pathogen. The type of skin infection correlates with the depth of skin involvement. A superficial infection such as ...

New research could change treatment approaches to simple skin abscesses, infections often caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria. New multicenter research, which included Vanderbilt ...

Every year between four and five million Americans suffer from chronic non-healing wounds, many caused by diabetes, poor circulation, pressure ulcers or other conditions. Proper wound care is ...

DALLAS – Feb. 24, 2004 – Physicians may not need to prescribe antibiotics when treating a common skin infection in children, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The ...

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Short antibiotic courses for uncomplicated infections show similar 30-day infection-related outcomes to long ones in ...