The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule that specifies requirements for registering certain clinical trials and submitting summary results to clinicaltrials.gov. The rule comes as an effort to make information about clinical trials widely available…
Day: September 19, 2016
Rates of antibiotic use in US hospitals unchanged
Between 2006 and 2012, overall rates of antibiotic use in hospitalized patients did not change significantly, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine. However, James Braggs, PhD, from the CDC, and colleagues identified increases in certain antibiotic classes, including…