All posts tagged with Antibiotics

(Natural News) As our last defenses begin to fail, many more people might die from common bacterial infections in 2017. Each year, an estimated 700,000 people die due to untreatable drug-resistant infections, and today that number is increasing faster than anyone predicted. About 40 years ago Levy and colleagues published their landmark study showing a […]

(Natural News) When you get a sore throat or an ear or sinus infection, do you know if you are receiving the proper treatment for your symptoms? In a recent report, researchers state that at least 50% of the time doctors are prescribing patients the wrong type of antibiotics. Groups from the CDC and Pew, […]

(Natural News) Some considered antibiotics to be the 20th century’s greatest medical advancement, but these days, after years of being misused and over-prescribed, that class of medications may be in danger of being removed altogether from the United States. Here’s the story. Some years ago, in the 1940s, scientists discovered that introducing subtherapeutic amounts of […]

(Natural News) The first thing to understand is “what is a microbe and why is it dangerous?” Microbes are microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably recognize these as the causes of most illnesses and diseases. They can cause anything from the common cold […]

(Natural News) Due to mounting pressure from informed and (understandably) outraged consumers, retail giant Costco decided to phase out selling chickens that have been treated with shared-use antibiotics. This move comes on the heels of a similar announcement from McDonald’s, which resolved to stop purchasing chickens raised with shared-use antibiotics within two years. Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs […]

(Natural News) The dawn of antibiotic-resistant superbugs is upon us. Antibiotic resistance has been a growing threat for decades, and it has finally reached “critical mass,” if you will. On Wednesday, September 21st, the United Nations held a meeting to discuss the ensuing nightmare. The United Nations rarely discusses health issues; meetings of this caliber […]

(Natural News) The secret to fighting bacterial infections has always been about using natural remedies, not Big Pharma-manufactured ones. This has been true ever since Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally left a window open and discovered the world-changing power of Penicillium notatum in 1928. Once Big Pharma got hold of these natural substances, they became rogue cures, […]

(Natural News) Antibiotics are often seen as the cure-all of modern medicine. It is true that antibiotics have been used with great success over the last 80 years or so, but they are not without consequence. As researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine recently noted in their study, which was published in the journal Genome […]

(Natural News) Antibiotics have undoubtedly saved countless lives since their introduction in the 1930s. However, due to the mass utilization of antibiotics to fatten up livestock, these once curative drugs are becoming more and more useless as the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grows. A report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics calls for […]