Word: antibioticized
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Infections are becoming harder to suppress because bacteria operate under the Nietzscheian principle: what doesn't kill them makes them stronger. As germs reproduce, some mutate, randomly developing genetic traits that give them some protection against treatments that were effective against their progenitors. (Viruses, which cause the common cold, are...
Now, as large numbers of people in developing countries are increasingly able to afford drugs, doctors are worried that the problem could spiral out of control. According to the China Medicine Development and Research Center, 70% of drug prescriptions in China are for antibiotics, compared with roughly 30% in the...
China's tendency to overprescribe antibiotics can be traced back to its traditional medical beliefs. "According to Chinese medicine, every single illness has a remedy," says Dr. Lam Tai-pong, an assistant dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Hong Kong. That means Chinese patients are more...
In this spirit, Winslow recently imparted to a group of campers the pearl, “Wash you hands once a week,” abruptly turning and acridly muttering about “Sanitation: our enemy number one,” and “antibiotic resistance.?...
The President had settled down in his suite of five large, airy but rather impersonal rooms. It is furnished with several comfortable armchairs, but the President slept on a standard metal hospital bed. Before dropping off, he was put through the battery of tests drearily familiar to anyone who has...