Gastrointestinal infection due to enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is the chief cause of a severe form of blood poisoning known as haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children. ...
THE DRUGS DON'T WORK, PART 4,961: This time they do nothing for bronc
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. ... ...
FEVER: Are we right to hit the panic alarm?
Heart patients might have been puzzled to be given a prescription for an antibiotic as part of their preventative treatment. After all, how's that supposed to stop a heart attack? Antibiotic therapy is based on the theory that the respiratory virus...
