Word: antibioticized
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New York Hospital officials were indignant because the state released its report without first giving them the opportunity to comment. "This is not the proper way to do business," fumed Thompson. "People read the health department's report in the newspapers and think it is gospel. It is, in fact...
To illustrate his argument, Hiatt described a visit he made to one African country. Upon visiting a medical outpost, he saw many women with infections easily treatable with antibiotics, but found that the entire antibiotic supply for that month had been distributed. Then, he visited a major hospital in the...
Farmers feed antibiotic-laced grain to food animals [MEDICINE, Sept. 24] not merely to stimulate growth but primarily prophylactically, to ward off stress-related diseases that current intensive farm-animal rearing practices create. A solution to both problems is to improve the living conditions. A recent study of the veal...
The report has added new intensity to the debate about antibiotic additives in livestock feed. Since 1977 the Food and Drug Administration has been proposing a ban on the addition to feed of penicillin and tetracycline, two antibiotics widely used to combat human disease. Farmers would be free to substitute...
Indeed, the conclusions of the CDC report are "inferential," concedes Epidemiologist Reuel Stallones of the University of Texas, who contributed to a 1980 report from the National Academy of Sciences that found the human health hazards of antibiotic feeds "neither proven nor dis-proven." But, he adds, "this is the...