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Venn guide to pills that kill things
Each year around this time, health care professionals begin to complain that patients are demanding antibiotics indiscriminately and are contributing to the evolution of resistant bacteria. I’m...
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Seasonal plea for informed antibiotic usage
The Centers for Disease Control recently announced that the 2012 flu season is gearing up to be heavy, so I wanted to make my yearly plug for greater clarity in antibiotics names. Here’s why:...
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The Walking Dead need antivirals, not antibacterials
In October 27th’s episode (“Isolation“) of The Walking Dead, there’s a little viral outbreak at the prison (I’ll leave it at that), and some characters head off to a distant veterinary school with a...
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How to improve Antibiotic Awareness Week
In case you didn’t get the memo, the CDC’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week (GSAAW) will be Nov 18th – 24th. I know this is hugely unexciting to most of you, so you can stop reading now and I won’t be...
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Antibacterial soap
Ever wonder why soap companies label their products “antibacterial” instead of “antibiotic”? OK, probably not. But this is not just trivia, folks — the explanation can help us address the rather...
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Evidence-based antibiotic usage
In my ongoing quest to show that “antibiotic” is a word that does more harm than good to public health outreach, I frequently encounter people on the Internet who insist that confusion over antibiotic...
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