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Health experts urge supermarket pharmacies to 'get smart' about free antibiotics
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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As influenza season shifts into high gear, with 24 states now reporting widespread activity, the nation's infectious diseases experts are urging supermarket pharmacies with free-antibiotics promotions to educate their customers ...
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Free antibiotics: The wrong prescription for cold and flu season
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Jan 16, 2009 |
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With an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections growing, experts are warning grocery-store pharmacies that antibiotics giveaways are an unhealthy promotional gimmick. If grocery stores want to help customers and save ...
Grocery chain to offer free antibiotics
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Oct 31, 2007 |
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A St. Louis grocery chain began offering a limited supply of many generic brands of antibiotics free to patients with a doctors' prescription.
Meijer stores to give free antibiotics
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Oct 24, 2006 |
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Grand Rapids, Mich., retail chain Meijer Inc. has announced it will distribute free antibiotics to customers for colds and other ailments.
Universal influenza vaccination may reduce antibiotic use
Aug 20, 2009 |
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We all know that influenza vaccination helps prevent disease, but a new study from Canada suggests it may also prevent another public health problem: inappropriate antibiotic use. The findings come from a new study in the ...
Fear of lawsuits may prompt some doctors to overprescribe antibiotics
Dec 18, 2009 |
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A new study led by a team of researchers at New York Medical College suggests that that medical liability concerns may be playing a role in the increase of MRSA in healthcare settings by encouraging clinicians to prescribe ...
Biomedical engineers find chink in bacteria's armor
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Sep 06, 2007 |
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Biomedical researchers at Boston University’s College of Engineering may have discovered the path toward developing better drugs capable of defeating so-called “superbugs,” bacteria that have developed resistance to common ...
Survey: Meat eaters want no hormones
May 11, 2006 |
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U.S. residents eat meat an average of 4.2 times a week, and most want assurances it was raised humanely and without antibiotics, a new survey found.
Study finds antibiotic resistance in poultry even when antibiotics were not used
Mar 07, 2007 |
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A surprising finding by a team of University of Georgia scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on poultry farms will do little – if anything – to reduce rates of antibiotic resistant bacteria that have the ...
Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages
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Dec 11, 2009 |
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It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.
Pigs raised without antibiotics more likely to carry bacteria, parasites
Jun 11, 2008 |
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While consumers are increasing demand for pork produced without antibiotics, more of the pigs raised in such conditions carry bacteria and parasites associated with food-borne illnesses, according to a new study.
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