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October 2022
The use of corticosteroids in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, who are typically treated at home and do not require oxygen therapy, is not beneficial and can be harmful. Disturbingly, a recent study shows that substantial proportions of nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients were prescribed systemic steroids.
June 2021
Patients taking the commonly prescribed antibiotic erythromycin should be aware that it has clinically important interactions with many other prescription medications.
November 2020
Early during the coronavirus pandemic, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were considered potentially useful treatments for COVID-19. In this article, we discuss results of randomized clinical trials showing that hydroxychloroquine is not effective for treating or preventing COVID-19.
July 2020
In his editor’s column, Dr. Michael Carome explains why President Trump’s reckless promotion of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as “game-changing” treatments for COVID-19 was so dangerous.
April 2020
Patients taking the commonly prescribed antibiotic clarithromycin (BIAXIN XL) should be aware that it has clinically important interactions with many other prescription medications.
June 2018
Clarithromycin is an oral antibiotic that is commonly used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections. Learn why patients with heart disease should avoid this antibiotic unless no other suitable antibiotic is available.
October 2015
Fluoroquinolones are the biggest-selling and most overprescribed classes of antibiotics in the U.S. Learn why Public Citizen's Health Research Group designates two of the five available fluoroquinolones as Do Not Use and why the other three should be used only in limited circumstances.
April 2014
Learn about new evidence demonstrating the dangers of combining calcium channel blockers, a widely used class of drugs for treating high blood pressure, with the commonly used macrolide antibiotic clarithromycin and other related antibiotics. Also find out which macrolide antibiotic does not have this dangerous interaction with calcium channel blockers.
March 2007
Although the FDA medical officer in charge of reviewing ranolazine recommended that ranolazine's professional product labeling display a black box warning about potential disruption in the heart's electrical cycle, the drug does not have a black box warning.
January 2007
An estimated 701,547 patients were treated for adverse drug reactions in emergency rooms each year in 2004 and 2005, totaling 1.4 million visits to the emergency room. Of these, an estimated 117,318 patients were hospitalized each year. According to the study. 18 drugs were each, either independently or in combination with other drugs, implicated in one percent or more of the estimated adverse drug events. These drugs are listed in the table that accompanies this article along with the annual estimates of adverse drug events.
March 2006
There is no reason to take telithromycin.(KETEK) There are safer and equally effective antibiotics available that are approved to treat the same illnesses. If you or a family member experience the symptoms of potential liver toxicity listed in the article, contact the prescriber immediately. Do not stop taking this antibiotic without an urgent call to your physician so you can be placed on a different, safer antibiotic.
June 2004
Telithromycin (KETEK) has shown to be no more effective than other antibiotics: amoxicillin, cefuroxime, clarithromycin, and trovafloxacin.
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