Word: antibioticized
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(2 of 2) "I'm not very polemical," says Tan from the San Francisco house she shares with her lawyer husband Lou DeMattei. "I just wanted readers to have a better understanding of moral complexities. I wanted to examine, for instance, the notion that people must die in order to...
Although members of the medical community have struggled in recent years to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescription, a study released yesterday by members of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital concluded that physicians are still prescribing antibiotics unnecessarily to patients...
Warren and Marshall spent months trying to culture the bug (later named Helicobacter pylori). Once successful, they tried in vain to get the medical establishment to test their theory that H. pylori caused ulcers. Failing that, Marshall, the more daring salesman of the two, tested it on himself in 1984...
Concerned about treatment of farm animals? Then look for the new "certified humane" label on menus and in supermarkets. The label promises that the animals ate antibiotic- and hormone- free diets and were compassionately raised. The extra care costs more, but chefs like Todd Gray at Equinox in Washington and...
The Chinese government is working to reduce antibiotic abuse. Over-the-counter sales were made illegal a year ago and advertisements targeting consumers have been curtailed. But enforcing regulations in a country of 1.3 billion people is hard; TIME reporters had little difficulty purchasing antibiotics without prescriptions in several Beijing...