Current fluoroquinolone use may elevate the risk for kidney injury, according to the findings of a population-based retrospective study. Steven T. Bird, PharmD, from the US Food and Drug ...

August 13, 2012 — Moxifloxacin and levofloxacin may increase the risk for acute liver injury for older outpatients, according to results from a case-control study by J. Michael Paterson, MSC, from the ...

Background: Although fluoroquinolones are sometimes associated with mild, transient elevations in aminotransferase levels, serious acute liver injury is uncommon. Regulatory warnings have identified ...

See related research article by Paterson and colleagues on page 1565 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.111823 Paterson and colleagues should be commended for ...

Fluoroquinolones are a class of antibiotics approved to treat or prevent certain types of bacterial infections. They were discovered in the 1960s, and doctors began to prescribe them in the 1970s and ...

Higher Dietary Fructose Tied to Lower Liver Energy Stores Moxifloxacin and levofloxacin use correlates with an increased risk of acute liver injury in older patients without a history of liver disease ...

I've been following fluoroquinolone antibiotics ever since I was a graduate student in the 1980s. We were working on a class of enzymes shared by bacteria and higher organisms called topoisomerases.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Outpatient diverticulitis treatment with amoxicillin-clavulanate was “just as effective” as treatment with a ...

The labeling changes are based on a review of postmarketing adverse event reports found in the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) database and published medical literature. The labeling ...

That post (headlined “This Antibiotic Will Ruin You”) highlights somewhat recent announcements made by the FDA requiring new warning labels and suggested limitations on their use: The antibiotics you ...