Row over antibiotic guidance
Thursday July 27th, 2017
Doctors should rethink their demand that patients finish prescribed
courses of antibiotics, senior specialists - controversially - say today.
The specialists, including two professors of infectious diseases, say
there is no evidence that completing prescriptions is necessary to prevent
drug resistance.
But GP leaders today say there is also no evidence to change the standard
advice - that patients should complete the prescription.
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Knee op pain relief study published
Thursday July 27th, 2017
Periarticular infiltration appears to be a superior method of pain control
during knee arthroplasty compared with femoral nerve block, according
to one of the last projects of a leading orthopaedic surgeon. More
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