To evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic antibiotics in preventing infection associated with central venous catheters in preterm neonates. The search strategy of the Cochrane Neonatal Review Group ...

Antibody-drug conjugates offer targeted power but come with distinct side effects. Learn how clinicians are tackling toxicity ...

Prophylactic oophorectomy might relieve much of your anxiety about developing cancer, but this type of surgery can also take an emotional toll on you. Even if you didn't plan on having children ...

Then, with those discussions, we can enter into a consideration of what is involved in prophylactic mastectomy: the fact that it is not perfect, one can still get breast cancer; the fact that with ...

Prophylactic irradiation to the chest wall after diagnostic or therapeutic procedures in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) has been a widespread practice across Europe, although the ...

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is now known to be a necessary cause of cervical cancer, and prophylactic HPV vaccines aimed at preventing genital warts, precancerous cervical lesions and ...

The incidence of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection was lower among at-risk patients on antibiotics for other ...

Editorial Archive Antibiotics as Prophylactic Agents Published May 19, 1955 N Engl J Med 1955;252: 872 - 873 ...