Finish your antibiotics course? Maybe not, experts sayParis, July 26, 2017 (AFP) -British disease experts on Thursday suggested doing away with the “incorrect” advice to always finish a course of antibiotics, saying the approach was fuelling the spread of drug resistance. Rather than stopping antibiotics too early, the cause of resistance was “unnecessary” drug use, a team wrote in The BMJ medical journal. These resistant strains can be transmitted directly between people who have no symptoms of illness. Yet the idea of completing an antibiotics course is “deeply embedded” in both doctors and patients, said the team.

Source: New Strait Times July 26, 2017 22:41 UTC