Beta blockers are no better than a sugar pill - Although beta blockers have been used for over 30 years to treat high blood pressure in elderly people, new analysis has discovered that the drugs are...

Antibiotics: Not so fast, doc - The doctor’s promise to ‘first do no harm’ may have to be altered to: ‘First do nothing’. Doctors who do not immediately prescribe antibiotics for tr...

Antibiotics: Not so fast, doc - The doctor’s promise to ‘first do no harm’ may have to be altered to: ‘First do nothing’. Doctors who do not immediately prescribe antibiotics for tr...

Antibiotic stunts bone marrow - Doctors have known for 45 years that there is a link between a widely-used antibiotic for minor eye irritations and bone marrow growth problems, but t...

Antibiotics: Doctors told to stop indiscriminate prescribing - UK health regulators have put a ban on the overuse of antibiotics. They are concerned that doctors are over-prescribing and inappropriately prescribin...

Doctors dole out antibiotics to babies - US doctors are still over prescribing antibiotics to babies, a new study reveals. ...

Rising antibiotic use: doctors blame their patients - Who is to blame for the rising inappropriate use of antibiotics? A new report suggests that doctors believe that, in many cases, the overprescribing o...

Antibiotics: They’re wrongly prescribed in 80 per cent of cases - Doctors are still regularly prescribing antibiotics for conditions for which they are inappropriate or just plain useless.