(HealthDay News) — Azithromycin is routinely prescribed to hospitalized patients despite risk factors for corrected QT (QTc) prolongation and administration of interacting medications, according to a ...

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Azithromycin is an antibiotic drug. It can help treat a range of bacterial infections that affect the lungs, sinuses, skin, and other parts of the body. Learn about its uses, risks, side effects, and ...

Clinicians should consider prescribing azithromycin to older patients taking calcium-channel blockers for hypertension in favor of other macrolide antibiotics, study results suggest. David Juurlink, ...

Mass administration of azithromycin to both infants aged 1-11 months and children aged 12-59 months reduced infant mortality compared with treating infants alone. Although the interaction effect was ...

Why the Acute Renal Failure? A nifedipine/clarithromycin interaction is the most likely cause of this man's renal failure. Clarithromycin has an effect on the important subunit of the cytochrome P450 ...

In 1982, after investing eight years of effort, Pfizer was preparing to end its work in macrolide research. Its work in finding an improved version of erythromycin had come up empty. But, as happens ...