Demand for Antibiotics Is Over the Top
Among all the visits children make to health care providers, 20 percent result in a prescription for antibiotics. That’s about 50 million prescriptions a year, Harvard Faculty Editor Claire McCarthy, M.D., wrote this week in a piece for Harvard Health Publications. Yet 10 million of those prescriptions are for respiratory illnesses that antibiotics aren’t likely to…
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