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Study finds antibiotics may make melanoma worse, by depleting the gut microbiome Antibiotics

Study finds antibiotics may make melanoma worse, by depleting the gut microbiome

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in mice with malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, accelerated their metastatic bone growth, likely because the drugs depleted the mice's intestinal flora and weakened their immune response, according to a new study by researchers at Emory University in…
bubmag
September 11, 2022
India is overmedicating on unapproved drugs, getting antibiotic resistant: Lancet study Antibiotics

India is overmedicating on unapproved drugs, getting antibiotic resistant: Lancet study

A new study by Lancet has found that India severely overuses antibiotics and a huge part of the formulations that the country's private sector uses aren't even approved by the Central drug regulator. The private sector's use contributes to about 85-90 per cent of the total antibiotic use in India…
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September 7, 2022
Algorithm to Avoid Unneeded Antibiotics Whiffs for Kids’ Diarrhea Antibiotics

Algorithm to Avoid Unneeded Antibiotics Whiffs for Kids’ Diarrhea

For physicians using a smartphone-based clinical decision-support tool, incorporating an algorithm aimed at estimating the probability that diarrhea is due to a viral cause failed to reduce antibiotic prescribing, a randomized crossover trial conducted in Mali and Bangladesh found. In the study of more than 900 children with acute diarrhea,…
bubmag
August 29, 2022
Whole Foods sued over its long-used ‘No Antibiotics Ever’ beef-selling slogan Antibiotics

Whole Foods sued over its long-used ‘No Antibiotics Ever’ beef-selling slogan

Austin-based Whole Foods Market Inc. likely hasn’t been served with the notice it is being sued; it will likely choose its words carefully when it does respond. That’s because the complaint against Whole Foods is mostly about words. “This consumer fraud action concerns Whole Foods’ material misrepresentations and omissions about…
bubmag
August 29, 2022