If you think you need an antibiotic for acute bronchitis, you are wrong, but you are not alone. Antibiotic prescription rates for adults with the common malady remain stubbornly in the 60% to 80% ...

Antibiotics are often prescribed for treatment of bronchitis, but the drugs are hardly a help to patients. Bronchitis is a type of inflammation that causes coughing, wheezing and possibly fever.

Antibiotics are often inappropriately prescribed for adults with acute bronchitis. Clinical guidelines for treating adults with no co-morbidity do not indicate treatment with antibiotics.

One in 10 children and about one in six adults with private insurance received antibiotics they didn't need at least once in 2016, a new Michigan Medicine study suggests.

Antibiotics still overused in bronchitis, sore throats There was no change in the rate of prescribing by primary care physicians from 1997 to 2010 and an increase in antibiotic use in EDs ...

An antibiotic commonly given for acute bronchitis is no better than low-dose vitamin C at treating the coughing attacks, a new study has found.

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Gonorrhea is treated with antibiotics. The recommended antibiotic for uncomplicated ...

Doctors may be overprescribing antibiotics at alarming rates for sore throats and acute bronchitis. A research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine on Oct. 3 examined nationally ...

Although there is a decline in inappropriate use of antibiotics to treat acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in many outpatient settings, the number of adults still receiving those ...

Antibiotics are routinely prescribed unnecessarily for acute bronchitis, according to Virginia Commonwealth University findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

There is no evidence that antibiotics help the vast majority of patients with acute bronchitis, and doctors should stop routinely prescribing them, researchers report.