MedCity News September 1, 2025
By making RT-PCR testing a routine option in outpatient and urgent care settings — and by educating all stakeholders along the clinical continuum — we can significantly reduce unnecessary antibiotic use, protect the effective drugs we still have, and ensure that bacterial infections remain treatable for future generations.
Antibiotics have revolutionized medicine, saving countless lives by treating previously fatal bacterial infections with ease. Yet today, their power is in serious jeopardy. Every year in the United States, nearly 3 million people develop infections that no longer respond to common antibiotics, and more than 35,000 die as a result. If serious infectious complications such as Clostridioides difficile (“C. diff”) infections — often caused by antibiotic use — are factored in, the...
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