Alternative treatments for pneumonia - PREVENTATIVE MEASURES Pneumonia is rarely a problem in individuals with healthy immune systems - in these cases, the body’s normal defence mechanisms...

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: 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...

Heart disease: antibiotics don’t help - Heart patients are regularly given antibiotics as part of their therapy on the theory that the respiratory virus Chlamydia pneumoniae plays a part in...

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...

Azithromycin is no better than vitamin c - New research carried out by Cook County Hospital, Chicago, has found that azithromycin, an expensive antibiotic commonly prescribed in the US and now...

Ear ache: no antibiotics - Two independent studies provide a further nail in the coffin to treatment of childhood earache with antibiotics. ...