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Antibiotic Use by Travelers May Add to Global Spread of Superbugs
News Category: Clinical News Date: 01/22/2015Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these...
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Commonly Used Antibiotics With Diuretic Can Double Risk of Sudden Death in...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 02/03/2015The combination of the commonly prescribed antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with the diuretic spironolactone, widely used for heart failure, more...
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Unwanted impact of antibiotics broader, more complex than previously known
News Category: Clinical News Date: 02/12/2015Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that antibiotics have an impact on the microorganisms that live in an animal's gut that's more broad...
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Study Links Antibiotics to Digestive Complication in Infants
News Category: Clinical News Date: 02/17/2015Using certain antibiotics early in infancy may raise the risk of a serious gastrointestinal condition called pyloric stenosis, a new study indicates.More...
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Antibiotics Use in Pregnancy May Increase Asthma Risk in Children
News Category: Clinical News Date: 03/04/2015Twice as many children born to mothers who took antibiotics during pregnancy were diagnosed with asthma by age 3 than children born to mothers who didn’t...
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Finding New Life for First-Line Antibiotics
News Category: In Development Date: 04/24/2015Duke University researchers have identified a single, simple metric to guide antibiotic dosing that could bring an entire arsenal of first-line...
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Infant Antibiotic Use Linked to Adult Diseases
News Category: Clinical News Date: 05/14/2015A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and...
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Antibiotic Use Can Be Cut Dramatically for Abdominal Infections, Major Trial...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 06/09/2015In a finding important for preventing the development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and...
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Study Examines Bacterial Susceptibility to Antibiotics Used to Treat Gonorrhea
News Category: Clinical News Date: 11/05/2015Although gonorrhea susceptibility to the antibiotic cefixime has been improving in recent years, suggesting a halt of a drift towards antibiotic...
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For Kids Prone to Wheezing With Respiratory Infections, Do Early Antibiotics...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 11/18/2015In children whose colds tend to progress and lead to severe wheezing and difficulty breathing — such that they are given oral corticosteroids as rescue...
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Old Drugs, New Tricks: Medications Approved for Other Uses Also Have...
News Category: In Development Date: 12/23/2015A number of drugs already approved to treat parasitic infections, cancers, infertility and other conditions also show promise as antibiotic agents against...
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Advice for Prescribing Antibiotics Issued
News Category: Clinical News Date: 01/20/2016In a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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Antibiotics Before Age 2 Increases Risk for Childhood Obesity, Study Suggests
News Category: Clinical News Date: 03/23/2016A new study found that administration of three or more courses of antibiotics before children reach an age of 2 years is associated with an increased risk...
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More Than 75% of STD-Negative Patients Receive Antibiotics
News Category: Clinical News Date: 06/09/2016A study of emergency department patients with symptoms of gonorrhea or chlamydia found that three in four patients who were treated with antibiotics...
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Infections, Antibiotic Use Linked to Manic Episodes in People With Serious...
News Category: Clinical News Date: 07/21/2016In research using patient medical records, investigators from Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt Health System report that people with serious mental...
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