Tag: bad science
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Good news and bad news in the fight against AMR
“Humans are locked in an arms race with microbes, but scientists are pursuing diverse approaches to keep one step ahead or slow down the competition.” This is the first sentence of the news feature ‘Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis’ published in Nature this week.
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Antibiotics do more than causing resistance
A couple of days ago in a study on continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in children with severe vesicoureteral reflux was published in the NEJM. An international open-label RCT with 292 kids enrolled over a period of (!) 7 years.