Tag: antibiotics
California’s New Law Means Fewer Drugs in Our Meat
There’s some great news coming out of California for meat eaters. After the Food and Drug Administration’s 2012 voluntary rules to restrict the use...
Is Organic Butter Really Worth the Extra Money?
Many people are coming to accept that butter is a health food, but some of us may still be tempted to purchase non-organic butter...
Antibiotic-Resistant Gene Discovered in Remote Tribe
Antibiotic resistance has been named as a worldwide health catastrophe. Since the invention of antibiotics in the 1920s, scientists have found that bacteria become...
Patients Need to Realize that Overprescription of Antibiotics Poses Real Risks
As soon as cold and flu season hits, you start to see many people heading to the doctor's office in search of medicine to...
New Report Estimates Death Toll from Antibiotic Resistance… And It’s Not...
A new global report, just released by the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), has quantified some of the costs - and casualties - of...
Study Finds Early Antibiotic Exposure Linked to Obesity and Other Health...
A new study, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers and published in the journal Cell, suggests that exposure to antibiotics early in life...
Certain Types of Antibiotics Found to Raise Risk of Colorectal Cancer
A new study, presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, found that certain antibiotics are linked to an...
Antibiotic Resistant Bugs: How They Evolve and Why They Spread
Back before the discovery of antibiotics, millions of people died or became seriously ill from a whole host of infections that we wouldn’t give...
Antibiotic Resistance a Worldwide Concern – Now is a Crucial Time...
A troubling new report issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) sheds light on the severity of the rising global problem of antibiotic resistance,...
FDA Begins Process of Phasing Out Antibiotics Used in Meat
Finally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a small step towards addressing today's rampant growth of antibiotic-resistant illnesses by launching a program...