Drug resistance is defined as the lack of expected response to a standard therapeutic dose of a drug or as resistance resulting from biologic changes in the target, as occurs in antibiotic resistance.

LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today it has introduced in the United States two new presentations of Heparin Sodium in convenient, ready-to-administer Freeflex ® IV bags.

This is the first FDA-approved antimicrobial catheter lock solution. The FDA has approved taurolidine plus heparin (DefenCath®) catheter lock solution to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections ...