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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An antibiotic often used in hospital intensive care units to treat serious staph infections resistant to other medicines may cause a sometimes-fatal bleeding condition, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Dr. Julius Pham's stomach churned when he saw a critically ill heart patient getting an antibiotic instead of a drug to support his blood pressure -- the kind of mix-up that is increasingly common in the United States, according to a new report.
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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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Federal health officials said Thursday they would ask outside experts whether the benefits of an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, outweigh its benefits.
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People who suffer from chronic sinus infections can be treated with antibiotics over a long period of time without necessarily developing resistance to the drugs, according to a new study.
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The elderly risk accidentally harming themselves by taking potentially lethal mixtures of medicines, an expert warns.
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The UK Food Standards Agency is advising people not to eat certain batches of organic chicken found to contain traces of nitrofuran (a banned antibiotic used to make chickens grow faster).
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By Sean Poulter  A SUPERBUG similar to MRSA which affects thousands of hospital patients has been found in farm animals and meat.
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UK researchers claim to have  found a way to make the hospital 'superbug' vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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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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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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GPs often prescribe the latest, most expensive antibiotics, when better alternatives are available, research suggests.
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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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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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A new study suggests the reason for the association may be that antibiotics destroy not only disease-causing microbes, but also those that are helpful to the developing immune system.
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Use of the antibiotic Factive should not be expanded to include treatment of acute sinus infections, federal health advisers recommended Tuesday.