Antibiotics are prescribed incorrectly to ailing nursing home residents up to 75% of the time, the nation’s public health watchdog says. The reasons vary -- wrong drug, wrong dose, wrong duration or ...

Federal and state health officials have a new target in the fight against the improper use of antibiotics: nursing homes. The overuse of sometimes lifesaving antibiotics at U.S. nursing homes is ...

Infections are all-too-common in nursing homes. And all-too-often facilities treat these conditions with large doses of antibiotics. Now the Obama Administration has announced a major initiative aimed ...