antibiotics
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Scientists Have Found an Antibiotic-Resistant Gene in E. Coli That Could Lead to Better Treatments
Scientists have discovered a gene that allows an E. coli strain to be antibiotic-resistant and it could potentially lead to better treatment.
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Sick Americans Are Desperate Enough To Buy Fish Antibiotics
In today’s “the U.S. healthcare system is utterly broken” news, a study has found evidence that some people are buying fish antibiotics online to use on themselves—presumably because they’re cheaper than visiting the doctor to get a proper prescription.
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The Bacteria That Cause Stomach Ulcers Are Becoming Drug-Resistant, Too
A common bacterial infection that causes stomach ulcers and cancer has gotten increasingly harder to fend off, according to new preliminary research out this week. In Europe, it suggests, strains of the bacteria Helicobacter pylori have become more resistant to the first-line drugs used to kill it over the past 20 years, with resistance rates…
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Childhood Antibiotics Could Raise Risk Of Mental Illness, Study Finds
For all the good that antibiotics do, relying on them too much can have pretty drastic drawbacks. In particular, their overuse can help create bacterial superbugs resistant to future antibiotics. But a new study published this week in JAMA Psychiatry suggests there’s another, more subtle consequence of antibiotic use, at least in young people: a…