In a study, IV iron was associated with twice the risk for infections in CKD. SAN DIEGO—Non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients receiving intravenous (IV) iron therapy may have increased ...

MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with contaminated intravenous feeding bags have died, and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials ...

The findings contradict the long-term belief that IV iron worsens acute infection outcomes by feeding the bacteria, said Haris Sohail, MD, of Charleston Area Medical Center in West Virginia, who ...

The benefits of treating anemia may need to be balanced against the risk of developing infection, according to investigators. The latest and largest systematic review on intravenous iron ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In 2005, James Luck, MD, of the Orthopaedic Institute for Children, and colleagues started a protocol to educate ...

A failure in a step of the sterilization process at a Birmingham, Ala., pharmacy is the likely cause of the infection that afflicted 19 patients in Alabama hospitals and resulted in nine deaths, ...

Treatment with intravenous (IV) iron significantly improved survival and increased hemoglobin levels in patients with iron-deficiency anemia who were hospitalized for an acute bacterial infection, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With associated congruent reinfection and reoperation rates, oral antibiotics are noninferior to IV antibiotics ...

Medical investigators found that infections linked to contaminated liquid nutrition supplement could have begun two months before officials realized there was a widespread problem at Alabama hospitals ...

As the second largest group of persons to have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and the most likely to transmit HIV to heterosexual partners in the United States and Europe, iv ...

Noninferiority in intention-to-treat analysis; supported by complete-case, per-protocol, sensitivity analysis (HealthDay News) — For patients being treated for bone or joint infection, oral ...