The natural product vancomycin is an antibiotic of last resort, used when other antibacterial agents aren't effective. But some bacteria have developed resistance to vancomycin. Researchers have now ...

Crestone, Inc. ("Crestone") today announced recent publication in the leading infectious disease journal, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, of positive results from a Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating ...

Canada: Researchers have found in a new randomized clinical trial that a 4-week vancomycin pulse and taper regimen showed a ...

VANCOMYCIN is a penicillinase-resistant antibiotic that may be used in the treatment of staphylococcal infections. Because it is known to be excreted chiefly through the kidneys in normal persons 1 ...

Researchers have created a modified form of the approved antibacterial drug vancomycin (Vancocin) that has three independent mechanisms of action, boosting its potency and minimizing the potential for ...

Vancomycin has only rarely been implicated as a cause of thrombocytopenia, and there is only limited evidence that this complication is caused by immune mechanisms. We conducted a study to determine ...

Review the side-effects of Vancomycin as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication. In majority of the ...

Vancomycin flushing syndrome (VFS) is a reaction to the antibiotic vancomycin. Symptoms include flushing and itching, among others. VFS was previously known as “red man syndrome.” However, the name ...

Vancomycin is a generic drug that’s prescribed for certain bacterial infections in adults and children. It’s available as the brand-name drugs Vancocin and Firvanq. The cost of vancomycin with and ...