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antibiotics
World failing in fight against antibiotic resistance: WHO
The world is doing far too little to combat the misuse of antibiotics which is fuelling drug resistance and allowing long-treatable diseases to become...
Antibiotics in infancy may be linked to childhood obesity
Kids who receive several rounds of antibiotics before age two may be at an increased risk of being overweight by age five, suggests a new study.
Despite warnings, children still overprescribed antibiotics
Researchers at Seattle Children’s Hospital examined past studies between 2001 and 2011 to see how doctors treated common childhood respiratory infections.
Big business brains called in to fix doomed antibiotics market
The drugs don’t work—and neither does the market, when it comes to antibiotics.
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