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Here's how you can enjoy an acne-free monsoon
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 30 (ANI): Turns out, keeping those pimples and boils at bay is as easy as taking some antibiotics.
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Communication can help in reducing antibiotic overuse in children
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 6 (ANI): A new study suggests that a better communication with their health care providers can help parents in reducing unnecessary usage of antibiotics for common childhood illnesses.
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For some UTIs, antibiotic risks outweigh benefits
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 4 (ANI): Antibiotics may not be the appropriate treatment for some urinary tract infections or UTIs, a recent study has suggested.
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A 'game changer' test for antibiotic drug resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 2 (ANI): When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is at fault. The current antibiotic assay, standardised in 1961 by the World Health Organization and used worldwide, is potentiall
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Time for action on Antimicrobial Resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): Antibiotics or antimicrobial agents have been used for the last 70 years to treat patients who have infectious diseases.
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Mommies-to-be! Antibiotics doubles risk of miscarriage
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 1 (ANI): Many classes of common antibiotics, used for treating infections, increase the risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, suggests a study.
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From urine to blood: How antibiotic resistance spreads
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 23 (ANI): People with drug-resistant bacteria in their urine or stool samples are at an increased risk of developing Sepsis, a bloodstream infection that is also resistant to certain antibiotics, according to a recent study.
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Commonly used antibiotic may not disrupt heart's normal rhythm
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 18 (ANI): Keep your worries at bay as Azithromycin group of medicine is no more linked to an increased risk of irregular heartbeat, says a study.
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Long-term antibiotic use in early to mid life puts you at cancer risk
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 5 (ANI): You may want to avoid popping those antibiotics as a recent study has linked their long-term use to the cancer-inducing polyps.
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How treating traveler's diarrhea with antibiotic risks your health
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr. 1 (ANI): Turns out, antibiotic use for travelers' diarrhea favours particularly resistant super bacteria, increasing the patients' risk of getting an infection.
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Cure for antibiotic resistant infections comes closer to reality
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 31 (ANI): A team of researchers has come up with a new treatment pathway for antibiotic resistant bacteria and infectious diseases with benefits for patients and health care providers.
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New fluorescence-based assay offers hope in fighting antibiotic resistance
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 25 (ANI): A team of researchers has come up with a fluorogenic probe that can detect the activity of multidrug-resistant pathogens in an assay system.
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