Word: antibioticized
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--CUTS AND SCRAPES Don't apply an antiseptic like hydrogen peroxide to minor cuts and scrapes; that can actually delay healing. Hydrogen peroxide kills pretty much everything in its path, including any immune cells that your body has rushed to the wound. All that's needed to treat most of...
Fear can lead to dangerous choices. Driving may feel safer than flying. It’s not. Buy a gun if it makes you feel safer, but the risk is higher when a gun is around than when it isn’t. Take an antibiotic you don?...
“The key point is that antibiotic use in different places is very likely driving substantial differences in which bacteria have resistance and which don’t have resistance,” said Marc Lipsitch, a researcher at the SPH and a co-author on the study...
There is hope that a vaccine released in 2000—effective against most of the strains with a high percentage of antibiotic resistance—will help to reduce the number of untreatable cases, she said.
For the first 2 million years or so of human history, bacterial infections--pneumonia, scarlet fever, syphilis, festering wounds--were often tantamount to a death sentence. But one London morning, humanity got a dramatic reprieve when a Scottish researcher named Alexander Fleming happened to glance at some Petri dishes about...