Antibiotics
Childhood Antibiotic Use Linked To Higher Food Allergy RiskAntibiotic treatment within the first year of life is associated with an increase in food allergy diagnosis, suggests new research. The researchers found that children prescribed antibiotics within the first year of life were 1.21 ...
- Natural Antibiotics: You Don't Have to Buy Them From a Pharmacy
These are natural antibiotics, not made in a laboratory and are easily available around us.
- This Ingredient in Your Toothpaste May Cause Antibiotic Resistance
A new study, published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, indicates another reason that may be increasing the risk of antibiotic resistance.
- Burger King, Tim Hortons to Curb Antibiotics Used in Chicken
Restaurant chains Burger King and Tim Hortons plan to switch to chicken raised without antibiotics, making it the latest company to ditch the drugs over health concerns.
- Long-Term Use of Antibiotics Can Put You at the Risk of Cancer
Prolonged antibiotic use by people in their early to mid-life can put them at a heightened risk of abnormal growths in the colon and rectum.
- Pregnant Women, Think Before Taking Antibiotics as It May Increase Risk of Miscarriage
According to a new study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, taking antibiotic drugs can increase the risk of miscarriage by 60% to 100%.
- From a Pile of Dirt, Hope for a Powerful New Antibiotic
An unusual method for producing antibiotics may help solve an urgent global problem: the rise in infections that resist treatment with commonly used drugs, and the lack of new antibiotics to replace ones that no ...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
