Public Health Risk of Antibiotic Use in Food Animals

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Additionally, it is important to understand that all bacteria may have some natural ability to grow in the presence of some antimicrobials, and just because a bacterium is resistant to a certain antibiotic does not mean that antibiotic treatment in the …
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ANN ARBOR: UM Study: 'Smarter' blood pressure guidelines could prevent …

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ANN ARBOR — A new way of using blood pressure-lowering medications could prevent more than a fourth of heart attacks and strokes – up to 180,000 a year – while using less medication overall, according to new research from the University of Michigan …
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An act of love: Michigan woman's kidney donation helps save her husband and …

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7 at the U-M medical center in Ann Arbor, packaged it delicately on ice in a cooler and shipped it on a commercial flight from Detroit Metro Airport to Philadelphia International Airport. In a miraculously … For 570 days, Bonnie and David's lives …
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Other views: Drug abuse talk needs to cover all the right bases

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Prescriptions for painkillers in the United States have nearly tripled in the past two decades, and fatal overdoses reached epidemic levels, exceeding those from heroin and cocaine combined, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention …
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