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Majority of Ear Infections Don't Require Antibiotics, Study Shows

by Monique El-Faizy, Posted Jul 20th 2010 10:00AM

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Your child is fussy, keeps pulling on his ear and is running a fever -- all signs of an ear infection. Many parents would call the doctor right away for an appointment to get ...
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Free Antibiotics Do More Harm Than Good?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Mar 9th 2009 1:00PM

The pharmacy in my local grocery store is currently offering free antibiotics as part of a health and wellness initiative. To promote the freebies, signs reading "You didn't pay for the germs. Why pay for the antibiotics?" are on display throughout ...
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Joy of pink eye

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Jun 3rd 2008 1:00PM

Perhaps you know of which I speak. The voice of experience warns to never, ever, ever go through pink eye again. Not getting it yourself, and certainly, most assuredly, not letting your kid get it again either. My fourteen-month-old son has had his ...
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Is tonsil removal a thing of the past?

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Feb 7th 2008 8:58PM

When I was a kid I got strep throat constantly. I had it so much, in fact, that one year I had it six times. It was at that point that my parents considered getting my tonsils removed. Back when we were kids, which wasn't that long ago when you ...
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Sick baby

by Jennifer Jordan, Posted Nov 20th 2007 6:55PM

There's nothing worse than having a sick baby. Honestly, I used to think it was worse when I felt poorly and the baby still needed attention, but it's actually the other way around. And it's awful. It started with a sniffle that slowly turned into ...
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How to help the medicine go down

by Sandy Maple, Posted Nov 6th 2007 3:29PM

In the very early hours of Monday morning, Ellie woke up in pain. It seems that after a week of sniffles and coughing, she had developed an ear infection. I tried my best to make her comfortable enough to get through the night, but it wasn't ...
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Free antibiotics for everyone!

by Sandy Maple, Posted Aug 8th 2007 9:02AM

Well, you need a prescription, and it doesn't apply to all antibiotics, but if you live in an area where there is a Publix store, you can get seven generic brands of antibiotics for free. Plublix is a privately held grocer and I guess they can do ...
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When your child won't take meds

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted May 14th 2007 9:05AM

Last weekend, Jared had a flu or virus or something. Whatever it was, the main symptoms were lethargy, muscle pain, and a high fever. The first two just meant staying in bed, but for the fever, the doctor recommended switching off between Tylenol and ...
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The sickest week of the year? It's true for our home.

by Heather Craven, Posted Feb 23rd 2007 4:01PM

This past week we have all been sick in our house. The big boy child has the sniffles, the middle girl child has a barking cough that sounds eerily like a performing seal, the smallest boy child has green goo coming out of his eyes and nose and the ...
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The never-ending runny nose

by Rachel Mosteller, Posted Nov 20th 2006 10:03AM

For a good portion of the beginning of 2006, my daughter, who was one at the time, had a constant stream of ear and sinus infections. We finally made the decision to have tubes put in her ears after a hearing test showed that the constant fluid ...
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Children might not always need antibiotics for ear infections

by Heather Craven, Posted Sep 18th 2006 10:30AM

Children with acute ear infections might not need antibiotics to get better, even when the infection is severe enough to prompt a visit to the emergency room. A new study in JAMA, recently summarized on HealthDay , found that almost two-thirds of ...
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Drug-resistant superbug spreading

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 19th 2006 4:00PM

An article in today's New England Journal of Medicine described how a once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms. Many victims mistakenly think they just have spider bites ...
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Honey versus antibiotics: not a nonsense battle at all

by Heather Craven, Posted Aug 1st 2006 6:30PM

A household remedy millennia old is being reevaluated: honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than the most modern antibiotics. Medical experts from the University of Bonn have been clocking up largely positive experience with what is known ...
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Enrollment in drug study ends

by Heather Craven, Posted Jun 11th 2006 6:00PM

Sanofi-Aventis, the maker of the antibiotic Ketek, announced Friday that it will discontinue the use of children in their drug studies. The drug has been linked to liver failure in adults. The company will not acknowledge any wrong doing in the ...
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Antibiotic drug trials not good for children

by Heather Craven, Posted Jun 8th 2006 2:00PM

Ketek, an antibiotic that is currently being tested in small groups of children, ages 6 months to 13 years, could pose serious health risks. The drug has been used to treat tonsillitis and ear infections in  4,000 children in over a dozen ...
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