Antibiotics: the French champions of European consumption
The prevention of bacterial resistance is one of the public health priorities. A goal far from being achieved since the ...
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Antibiotic resistance: mouthwashes could promote it
© ThinkstockCB 12, Eludril, Parodontax ... these mouthwashescontain a small amount of an antiseptic called chlorhexidine, a strong disinfectant. According ...
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Antibiotic resistance: a new treatment coming soon
Monday July 15, 2019. Over-prescribed and over-used, antibiotics pose a problem for our health because bacteria are now able to ...
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Finally an antibiotic that treats gonorrhea?
© iStockPhotosThe World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 700,000 people worldwide die from drug-resistant infections each year. These infections include ...
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Childhood obesity: antibiotics associated with increased risk
Prescribed before 2 years, antibiotics are not necessarily beneficial. Their use is associated with an increased risk of obesity at ...
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Antibiotics ineffective in 15% of cases
In a large study, published in the BMJ, researchers reviewed more than 21 years of antibiotic prescriptions.It is the largest ...
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Child health: every second prescription for antibiotics is unnecessary
In every second infection of the ENT sphere (ear, nose, throat), doctors unnecessarily prescribe antibiotics to children. This is what ...
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Excessive antibiotic intake could claim the lives of 2.4 million people in 2050
November 8, 2018. An OECD report, published this Wednesday, November 7, 2018, is concerned about the resistance of bacteria to ...
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Resistant bacteria: the antibiotic was under our noses!
© iStockPhotosAs scientists worry more and more about the bacteria resistance to the main antibiotics, German bacteriologists from the University ...
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Unit drugs: four regions on the test
Call for applications from pharmacies in four French regions: pharmacies have until September 8 to volunteer in the experimentation of ...
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Antibiotic resistance has caused serious neonatal infections
A strange spike in streptococcal B infections in infants in the 1960s. This medical mystery has finally found its explanation: ...
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Antibiotic resistance will cause 10 million deaths per year in 2050
© FotoliaTen million deaths a year and a hundred trillion dollars. These alarming figures will be attributed to antimicrobial resistance ...
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Nosocomial C. difficile infections: antibiotic resistance involved
© iStockAntibiotic resistance and not lack of hygiene would be responsible for the spread of the dangerous bacteria Clostridium difficile ...
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Antibiotic resistance: the benefits of essential oils
June 26, 2017. A Moroccan researcher, Adnane Remmal, could have found a solution to the ineffectiveness of certain antibiotics. His ...
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Antibiotic resistance: actions are multiplying in the face of the global threat
A persistent infection, ineffective antibacterial products… Antibiotic resistance is a real threat, and the great people of this world are ...
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Antibiotic resistance: alarming consequences
© iStockConcern about excessive prescriptions of antibiotics is nothing new. The medical journal The Lancet Is sounding the alarm about ...
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Antibiotics in animals: authorities sound the alarm
To fight against antibiotic resistance, ANSES calls for more than moderate use of antibiotics in farms, and in particular for ...
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A natural antibiotic in the blood of the Komodo dragon
February 28, 2017. According to a study conducted by a team of researchers from George-Mason University in the United States, ...
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Antibiotic resistance: hope thanks to an ancestral berry from South America
February 14, 2017. The fruit of the pepper plant could offer a therapeutic alternative to the fight against antibiotic resistance. ...
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A diagnostic test to fight antibiotic resistance
November 18, 2016. On the occasion of World Antibiotic Use Week, specialists are meeting to encourage doctors to limit the ...
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Antibiotics before one year associated with a risk of asthma
Doctors should avoid prescribing antibiotics for children under one year of age, study says. These treatments are associated with a ...
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Antibiotics: increased risk of miscarriage
Most common antibiotics are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy. Only two molecules are exempt from ...
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Otitis: soon an antibiotic gel for children?
September 21, 2016. A team of researchers from Boston University in the United States has reportedly developed an antibiotic gel ...
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Antibiotic resistance will kill ten million people in 2050
May 20, 2016. A world in which antibiotics would no longer work would be a world where, every three seconds, ...
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The flu epidemic still rages in 17 regions
The flu epidemic, which has already affected a million French people, is not weakening. The Rhône-Alpes, PACA, Burgundy and Champagne-Ardenne ...
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Influenza: the effectiveness of the vaccine called into question
The effectiveness of the influenza vaccine was rated as "low to moderate" during the 2012-13 season. And according to the ...
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Flu: the epidemic intensifies
In its latest bulletin, InVs notes the continued increase in the number of consultations for influenza. But also admissions in ...
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Antibiotic resistance: a serious phenomenon
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published its report on antibiotic resistance which it considers "a serious threat of global ...
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Antibiotics: MEPs limit their use for animals
MEPs have just approved a provision in the draft law on agriculture limiting the issuance of antibiotics to animals. The ...
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Doxycycline: out of stock of a widely prescribed antibiotic
Almost all of the drugs containing doxycycline are out of stock. The ANSM asks doctors to prescribe this antibiotic only ...
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