Word: antibioticized
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At the same time, however, we must be careful not to allow doomsday prophecies and other scare-mongering to provoke extreme reactions. Stockpiling huge quantities of vaccines or antibiotics may be expensive and ultimately ineffective, especially in an age when mutant germs and antibiotic-resistant microbes can be easily developed...
Most people who develop Lyme Disease, a tick-borne infection that's endemic in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms (fatigue...
Now comes word of two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine that show that long-term antibiotic treatment is no better than a placebo for folks with chronic Lyme disease. Originally scheduled for publication in July, the research is part of a group of findings made public last...
BONUS SHOT Meningitis vaccinations are agonizing for babies, but they pack an unexpected bonus--fewer ear infections. A Finnish study shows that meningitis vaccines ward off 6% of all ear infections. That may not sound like much, but U.S. children under five come down with 25 million ear infections each...
The first consideration is whether, even if we agreed on a good thing genetic engineering could accomplish (say, preventing cystic fibrosis), it would still be wrong in all cases to use it. Unless there's something purposeful about the particular assortment of genes we're born with, there seems no...