Antibiotics overprescribed in patients with sore throats [1]

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(NaturalNews) It is a familiar scenario: you go to the doctor with a sore throat and he or she prescribes you a course of antibiotics without actually verifying your condition. But new research out of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston confirms what many of us in the natural health community have suspected for decades concerning this seemingly frivolous application of antibiotics -- that up to 90 percent of sore throat cases are viral rather than bacterial, which means they will not even respond to antibiotics.

"There is concern about antibiotic [2] overuse causing super bugs and things we are not going to be able to treat down the line," Dr. Linder is quoted as saying to HealthDay.com. "I think what's missing from the conversation is the fact that we are prescribing and people are taking a medicine that has nearly a zero chance of helping them and a very real chance of hurting them."

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042485_antibiotics_sore_throats_resistant_superbugs.html##ixzz2hiNhX7Hs [3]

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