CDC Report Shows Staggering Number Of Deadly Antibiotic Resistant Infections
Those results come from a CDC report that even has doctors worried.
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Those results come from a CDC report that even has doctors worried.
Infections of this kind are "virtually untreatable with modern medicine," CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat said in a press briefing on April 3.
In this installment of "22 Minutes," 1010 WINS anchor Brigitte Quinn sits down board-certified emergency medicine physician and host of television's "The Doctors," Dr. Travis Stork.
We have been told that the overuse of antibiotic is leading to drug resistant super-bugs, but the vast majority of antibiotics produced in the U.S. are not given to humans, but to the livestock that we eat.
Some Lyme disease patients said the research isn't surprising since they still suffer symptoms after several rounds of antibiotics.
This is the weekend to properly dispose of those old, unused and expired medications without putting your drinking water at risk.
Two makers of pet treats have pulled their products from the market because they contain traces of poultry antibiotics that are not approved in the United States.
One of Hauppauge High School's elite wrestlers, 16-year-old Nicholas Mauriello, was fighting for his life in a Suffolk County hospital room Tuesday, battling two bacterial infections.