World Antibiotics Awareness Week: How we can all help prevent antibiotic resistance
Some facts and figures on antibiotic resistance and why it is important we all play our role in fighting against it.
Some facts and figures on antibiotic resistance and why it is important we all play our role in fighting against it.
Prescriptions for antibiotics and acid suppression medications during early childhood are associated with the development of obesity, according to a study published in the journal Gut. The study, led by Christopher
When emergency tests showed the telltale right-sided pain in Heather VanDusen’s abdomen was appendicitis, she figured she’d be quickly wheeled into surgery. But doctors offered her the option of antibiotics instead.
Health experts have been wondering about the increased prevalence of kidney stones (nephrolithiasis) in the general population in the last two to three decades.
A common antibacterial found in toothpaste may help treat cystic fibrosis when combined with an FDA-approved drug used to treat the disease.
Those whose mothers had taken antibiotics while pregnant had up to a 20 percent higher risk of hospitalization from infection.
British disease experts on Thursday suggested doing away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fuelling the spread of drug resistance.
The study pointed out that women who miscarried were more likely to be older, living alone and to have multiple health issues and infections, all of which were taken into account in the analyses.
The pill you take today may be the pill that kills you tomorrow,” said Dr. Enrique “Eric” Tayag, former assistant health secretary and now director IV of the Bureau of Local Health Development, during a forum on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
You may not be taking “shabu,” cocaine or other substances, but you may unknowingly be a “drug user” or “drug pusher,” too.
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