Thursday, September 08, 2011
"Antibiotics: Killing Off Beneficial Bacteria … for Good?"
Great.
So, should I get my immediate problem fixed; or, should I participate in the demise of all mankind?...
So, should I get my immediate problem fixed; or, should I participate in the demise of all mankind?...
Maryn McKenna recently reported this at Wired.com:
"In a provocative editorial published this week in Nature, Martin Blaser of New York University’s Langone Medical Center argues that antibiotics’ impact on gut bacteria is permanent — and so serious in its long-term consequences that medicine should consider whether to restrict antibiotic prescribing to pregnant women and young children."