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...This is putting selective pressure on bacteria when it’s not needed,” said Alethea McCormick, the study’s principle author. “The use of antibiotics should be limited to infections that are truly bacterial...
...McCormick said that there is a rising proportion of bacteria resistant to both penicillin and erythromycin—two of the most heavily prescribed antibiotics...
...McCormick added that until this study was published, nobody had explained how this process takes place...
This most likely occurs, according to McCormick, because the use of antibiotics to treat illness puts pressure on the population of bacteria that inhabit treated humans...
...control pill, called Enovid-10, a synthetic combination of hormones that suppresses the release of eggs from a woman's ovaries. Nor did she hear from John Rock and Gregory Pincus, the doctors who developed the oral contraceptive with $3 million that Sanger had raised from her friend Katherine McCormick, the International Harvester heiress...