Antibiotic Resistance
This Ingredient in Your Toothpaste May Cause Antibiotic ResistanceA new study, published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, indicates another reason that may be increasing the risk of antibiotic resistance.
- India to Issue Guidelines on Antibiotics Usage
Experts are expressing concerns that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness at an increasing rate. Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most significant threats to patients' safety.
- Antibiotic Resistance Is Worrisome, but Not Hopeless
Every time we use antibiotics, we increase the chance for resistant strains to develop. Bacteria are very good at the evolution game.
- Talking to the Doctor May Prevent Antibiotic Overuse in Kids
Practice basic hygiene and sanitation to avoid falling prey to bacterial viral invasion.
- Doctors Urged to Cut Antibiotics Prescriptions
Growing use of antibiotics leading to increasing numbers of infections proving resistant to them, experts sayDoctors must stop prescribing so many antibiotics to patients because overuse is leading to increasing numbers of serious infections proving...
- Is Your Meat Safe? Experts Speak on Overuse of Antibiotics
Scientists, doctors and public health experts have issued a statement of common concern against irrational use of antibiotics in humans and animals and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
- Why You Should Avoid Giving Antibiotics to Your Kids
A new study published in the International Journal of Obesity warns that children who receive antibiotics throughout the course of their childhood gain weight significantly faster than those who do not.
- How Antibiotics May Make You More Prone to Infections
Antibiotics are essential for fighting bacterial infection but, they can also make the body more prone to infection and diarrheaby allowing gut pathogens to -breathe-, says a study.
- WHO Lists 12 Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and the Urgent Need for New Drugs
WHO published the first-ever list of antibiotic-resistant "priority pathogens" that included 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
- Centre Should Act to Limit Use of Antibiotics in Livestock
"In India, the use of antibiotics in pre-mixed feed for livestock is going up a lot."
