Tag: Jonathan Finkelstein

  • Nation & World

    Doctors overprescribing antibiotics for sore throats

    Doctors treating sore throats are overprescribing antibiotics to more than a million U.S. children annually, unnecessarily driving up health costs, promoting the rise of drug-resistant bugs, and exposing children to…

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hold that penicillin

    “The threat of resistance to antibiotics by bacteria increased so dramatically from the 1970s to the mid-1990s that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) labeled it a national…

    1 minute