Azithromycin News

Antibiotic effective against leading cause of blindness throughout the world

A Single Dose of one antibiotic for treating Trichiasis is more effective than a six-week regimen of another antibiotic

Pfizer petitions FDA to recall teva and sandoz generic azithromycin products to correct misbranding

Pfizer Inc said today that it has filed a Citizen Petition alerting the FDA that generic azithromycin products sold by Teva Pharmaceuticals U.S.A. and Sandoz Inc. appear to be misbranded because their labels do not accurately...

Single-dose azithromycin for the treatment of cholera in adults

Abstract:

Background Single-dose azithromycin is effective in the treatment of severe cholera in children, but its effectiveness in adults has not been evaluated.

Insite vision announces the issuance of an additional us patent on azalide ophthalmic products

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(HSMN NewsFeed)--June 7, 2006--InSite Vision Incorporated (AMEX:ISV ) -- an ophthalmic products company currently focused on developing therapies that treat ocular infection, glaucoma, and retinal diseases, today...

Cholera drug tested successfully, but pandemic advances

Researchers in Bangladesh have tested a drug that cures cholera in most patients, showing that it is a useful new weapon in an arsenal that has grown weak against the cholera organism's growing drug resistance. But, drugs alone...