Probiotics may prevent diarrhoea due to antibiotics

A pandora’s box of adverse effects

For years, non-specific anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin and paracetamol (acetaminophen) were the medications of choice for joint pain. But NSA...

Probiotic Drinks

First there was plain yoghurt, then fruit yoghurts, then yoghurt drinks, and now everyone ’s talking about - and apparently consuming - gut-friendly p...

Diarrhea: A probiotic drink can fix it

A probiotic yogurt drink can stop diarrhea, doctors have discovered. They gave a probiotic that contains Lactobacillus to a group of patients in hosp...

Vitamins: They can make you healthier (and grass may be green in a double-blind placebo study)

The understanding of nutrition plays a tiny part in a doctor’s education – in fact, it’s around one day out of a five-year programme – and so any stud...

Probiotics: They protect the gut when you take an antibiotic

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the effectiveness of probiotics – and, judging by a new study, there may be something to it.

Adverse effects reported with anthrax prophylaxis

Around 20 per cent of those taking the antibiotic ciprofloxacin to prevent anthrax infection will experience adverse reactions to the drug, say the US...