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Adding Oral to IV Antibiotics Likely Curbs Wound Infection in Elective Colorectal Surgery

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery, adding oral antibiotics (OAs) to intravenous (IV) antibiotics preoperatively reduced incisional surgical site infection (SSI) by more than 50% in a network meta-analysis. “There are differences in opinions and international guidelines on whether OAs should be given preoperatively in addition to IV antibiotics as […]

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Accident Gives MS Doctor Insight Into Patients’ Lives

Editor’s note: The original text has been revised and updated. As Gavin Giovannoni, MBBCh, PhD, an esteemed British multiple sclerosis (MS) expert, set out for his Saturday morning run on Nov. 7, 2020, the world’s weighty problems swirled through his head. Brexit, a U.S. election, a global pandemic, not to mention the daily struggles of […]