Old is new again: Study determines dosing for 1950s drug now being used to treat drug-resistant infections
Monday, July 4, 2011 - 06:30
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- An ongoing study led by a University of Pittsburgh researcher has established the first scientifically-based dosing guidelines for a more than 50-year-old drug that has re-emerged as the best, and often only, treatment for some bacterial infections that are resistant to modern therapies. The study appears in the July issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.