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12/11/2017 / By Russel Davis

It’s not just kids: Study finds adults are also unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine has revealed that doctors are dispensing unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, and that one in five hospitalized adults suffer the side effects of this irresponsible practice. As part of the study, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine examined the electronic medical records of nearly 1,500 adults admitted to the […]

06/19/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Prescription antibiotics almost always completely useless for UTIs in older women, study finds

A recently published research paper revealed that prescription antibiotics may not be as effective as previously thought, and may even cause more harm than good in older patients with urinary tract infection. Research author Dr. Thomas E. Finucane of the Johns Hopkins Geriatrics Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore noted that antibiotic treatment may often be avoided as […]

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