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UK: Doctors Should Go Easy on Antibiotics...

Posted on July 23, 2008

England s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is urging doctors to NOT prescribe antibiotics for most cases of sore throats, colds, bronchitis, and most respiratory infections. Reuters reports:They should also delay writing such prescriptions and reassure people the drugs are not needed immediately and would make little difference because most respiratory infections are viral, the new guidelines said. Management of respiratory tract infections in the past concentrated on advising prompt antibiotic treatment, Paul Little, who helped write the new guidelines, said in ...

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