Overprescribing Antibiotics

This is now a world in which some bacteria no longer succumbs to the common drugs that we use against them. The overuse of antibiotics may be leading to further resistance. Robert Ashley, M.D., is an internist and assistance professor of medicine at the University of California in Los Angeles who gives us some information on the increased resistance by overprescribing antibiotics.

More powerful antibiotics are used only when an infection is resistant to all other antibiotics, and the drug companies lack the incentive to develop new antibiotics. So the question is how we best prevent drug resistance …read more