Antibiotics 'unnecessarily used'
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Antibiotics are not justified in people with coughs and colds, sore throats or ear infections, say UK researchers.
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Almost 70 percent of child pneumonia patients in a recent Chinese survey were resistant to drugs used to treat the disease due to overuse of antibiotics, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
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A drug used to treat breast cancer would not be good for preventing the tumours occurring in the first place, say researchers.
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Over-prescribing of antibiotics in  Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal and France is causing high rates  of antibiotic resistance," researchers said on Friday.
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An unsurprising response from the FDA.
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GPs often prescribe the latest, most expensive antibiotics, when better alternatives are available, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - An effort to change doctors' prescribing habits for antibiotics and to educate parents of small children about the proper use of antibiotics was only moderately successful at curbing antibiotic use, Boston researchers report.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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Adding antibiotics to standard drug therapy may slow down the progress of multiple sclerosis, research suggests.
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON     -- A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found...
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Antibiotics could one day be used for more than killing bacteria and may help patients suffering from neurological diseases, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Doctors have known for years that the  antibiotic erythromycin can, in rare cases, spark an abnormal  and sometimes fatal heartbeat. But combining it with several  common drugs may dramatically increase that risk, researchers  warned on Wednesday.
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Government plans for tackling superbugs are not being based on scientific fact, say the Lancet.
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An antibiotic proposed as a treatment for acute sinus infections should be studied further because of serious skin reactions associated with its use, federal health officials said in documents released Monday.
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Giving children antibiotics to ward off repeat urinary tract infections does not prevent the problem from returning and leads to infections that are resistant to the drugs, researchers said on Tuesday.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Doctors and patients alike need to do more to clear the air regarding high prescription drug costs and their impact on medication use, according to new research.
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A study suggests that a virulent drug-resistant bacterium spreading in hospitals and nursing homes may be twice as common as once thought.