What Doctors Don't Tell YouDr Lisa Landymore-Lim, a British chemist specializing in immunology and biomedical chemistry, became curious about the explosion of childhood illnesses such as asthma and diabetes, and carried out a pilot study of drug-prescribing among juvenile...
Erythromycin treatment in infants, particularly those in the first two weeks of life, increases the risk of a gastrointestinal disorder called infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (IHPS).
Doctors still can't agree on whether antibiotics are an effective way of treating acute bronchitis. Worse, they can't even agree on what acute bronchitis is. ...
The consequence of over-prescribing is a resistance to drugs. It has already happened to antibiotics, and now the same thing is being seen with the antiviral drugs. As a result, diseases such as HIV and hepatitis B are more difficult to manage.
US doctors are still over prescribing antibiotics to babies, a new study reveals. ...
Antibiotics, the wonder drugs of the Fifties, are responsible for many aillnesses in the Nineties. ... ...
Antibiotics are largely ineffective in treating recurring ear infection in children, according to an analysis of 33 studies looking at this method of treatment.
Babies born to mothers who had an epidural during labour are four times as likely to have antibiotics because of the fear of infection. ...
Doctors have known for 45 years that there is a link between a widely-used antibiotic for minor eye irritations and bone marrow growth problems, but they still prescribe it on a daily basis. ...
