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 ...

Talia Smith of Norwood, MA told 25 Investigates the proposal she drafted with the Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Study Foundation and patient advocate Audrey Reynolds, for the classification and coding of ...

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.

Antibiotic stewardship interventions to limit fluoroquinolone prescribing among inpatients do not reduce the prescribing of fluoroquinolones at discharge, according to a "real-world snapshot" of the ...

Researchers evaluated 3,001,256 and 434,754 adults in two primary care databases who were prescribed a fluoroquinolone antibiotic or cephalosporin between 1997 and 2019. They also performed ...

Credit: Getty Images. According to the results of a nested case-control study, oral fluoroquinolone exposure appears to be associated with an increased risk of incident peripheral neuropathy.

Oral stepdown therapy with fluoroquinolones or TMP-SMX had similar effectiveness against gram-negative bloodstream infections, though further research is needed to identify optimal durations of ...