Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated appendicitis is a cost-saving alternative to surgery, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

A new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that many antibiotics given to children in Tennessee are not being prescribed correctly. In 2022, only 31.4% of the more ...

Treatment guidelines for children hospitalized for severe malnutrition include routine administration of antibiotics; however, there is no consensus as to whether antibiotics are indeed helpful in ...

Current guidelines recommend that children with acute pyelonephritis are initially treated with a parenteral third-generation cephalosporin such as ceftriaxone, and then oral antibiotics.