Antibiotic fails to win panel's support
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Use of the antibiotic Factive should not be expanded to include treatment of acute sinus infections, federal health advisers recommended Tuesday.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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NEW YORK  - After considering the clinical evidence, members of the National Academy of Neurology conclude that "there is no compelling evidence that prolonged treatment with antibiotics has any beneficial effect in post-Lyme syndrome."
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Patients with chronic sinus infections do not appear to develop resistance to antibiotics taken for the condition if the drugs are closely matched to attack the bacteria involved, a study said on Monday.
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Benefits of an antibiotic linked to rare reports of severe liver problems, including several deaths, outweigh its risks in treating pneumonia but not less serious bacterial infections like bronchitis and sinusitis, federal health advisers said Friday.
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An assembly committee has called for an urgent independent inquiry into hospital-acquired infections.
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It recalls a solution that might be linked to a rare infection.
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Food and Drug Administration approval of a drug label does not clear the manufacturer of claims that its warnings were inadequate, a judge ruled.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - The Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic Ketek is safe enough to stay on the market for treating pneumonia, but regulators should withdraw approval for bronchitis and sinusitis, a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday.
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Antibiotics are not justified in people with coughs and colds, sore throats or ear infections, say UK researchers.
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NEW YORK  - An effort to change doctors' prescribing habits for antibiotics and to educate parents of small children about the proper use of antibiotics was only moderately successful at curbing antibiotic use, Boston researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Taking lactobacillus by mouth  or vaginally does not appear to prevent yeast infections in  women when they take antibiotics, as frequently happens,  according to new research findings.
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U.S. lawmakers criticized the Food  and Drug Administration's monitoring of the risks of the  antibiotic Ketek (Sanofi-Aventis) and some other prescription  drugs on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration late Friday declined to endorse AstraZeneca&#39;s anti-stroke drug, Exanta.
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A federal panel delayed a vote yesterday on whether to recommend MedImmune's nasal influenza vaccine, FluMist, for children under 5 years old, a key market for the Gaithersburg biotechnology firm.
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Merck's HIV vaccine fails in phase 2 trials.