Word: sores
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...sore throat is one of the most common reasons for seeing a doctor. Most of the time the cause is viral, and you can ease your suffering with chicken soup and a painkiller like acetaminophen. But sometimes the problem is a kind of bacteria called group A streptococcus--or strep, for short. That's when antibiotics like penicillin or erythromycin come in handy. Early spring is a peak season for strep throat. If you have a sore throat that is accompanied by a fever but not a cough, your lymph nodes are swollen and there are yellow or white patches...
...least that is one of the conclusions of a study published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association. When doctors at a family-medicine clinic in Calgary, Alta., depended on clinical observation to determine whether or not a patient with a sore throat needed antibiotics, they guessed wrong 40% of the time--making the kind of error that only furthers the spread of drug-resistant diseases. Doctors got the best results if they relied on a microbiologic lab test--either a two-day throat culture or the somewhat less accurate 20-min. rapid test...
...patient if your doctor swabs your sore throat or your child's instead of immediately prescribing antibiotics. That will increase the chances that the drugs will still work when you really need them...
Ambidextrous sophomore Matt Brunnig—who is usually one of the squad’s weekend starters as a right-hander—was suffering from a sore elbow, and didn’t make an appearance until the final out of Game 2 against Penn on Saturday...
...screenwriter. Mentioning a key scene towards the end of Sunshine, Gondry unintentionally dredges up an on-set clash over how precisely to stage its action. The two turn away from the reporters to banter about the differing ways they thought about pulling it off, and Kaufman still seems somewhat sore that Gondry’s approach...