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HONEYMOON OVER? Urinary-tract infections--dubbed honeymooner's cystitis--are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Research published last week shows that 18% of the infections today--double the percentage in 1992--may be resistant to Bactrim and Septa, the most widely prescribed medications. Other drugs that are penicillin-based no longer work on 1 out of 3 infections. What tends to bring on the infection? Frequent sex and the use of a diaphragm and spermicides...
...American Foundation for AIDS Research, clinicians learned that, when the drug was sprayed into the lungs, it dramatically reduced the recurrence of the disease. In addition, lab tests can now predict who is at risk for developing pneumocystis, and physicians have found that an antibiotic marketed under the names Bactrim and Septra is effective in preventing the infection...
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