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...event of an anthrax scare, for example, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that pregnant women take amoxicillin. But an obstetrics researcher in Seattle recently concluded there's no way to give a pregnant woman enough of the antibiotic to be effective. Kidney function is so revved up during pregnancy that even in high doses, amoxicillin is excreted before it can work its magic. Think of it as trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open, suggests Jason Umans, an internist and maternal-fetal pharmacologist at Georgetown University. "In emergencies, you always hear, 'Treat the pregnant women...
...does not want his last name used). "We do not have Social Security or Seguro Popular [public insurance], so we went to a private doctor [on April 5]. She treated [Adela], and we paid her and bought the medicines." The physician said Adela had a throat infection and prescribed amoxicillin and Amboxal. But Adela did not get better. On April 7, she went back to the doctor by herself. She had coughed up blood that day and had a 40-degrees Celsius fever (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Her husband says the doctor recommended another medicine. "It did not work," Jose Luis...
...good news, according to Erin Staples of the CDC, is that Lyme disease is almost always readily cured if diagnosed early and treated with a short course of antibiotics (doxycycline, amoxicillin and Ceftin are most often recommended). Infection doesn't usually occur until the tick has been attached to your body for 36 hours. So if you are going into the woods this summer, wear shoes, socks and light-colored clothing; spray your clothes and skin with an insect repellent that contains DEET; stay on cleared, well-traveled trails; avoid moist, shady areas covered with leaf litter or low-lying...
...developing countries, counterfeiters tend to target common prescription drugs, including the antibiotic amoxicillin and the painkiller acetaminophen. Many knockoffs are easy to spot because of their amateurish packaging. WHO investigators recently found a fake antimalaria drug circulating in Cambodia called Brainy, a nonexistent brand. Counterfeiters apparently planned to fool unsophisticated buyers by printing the packaging in the Thai language-Thai products are respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce...
...spot. There's no telltale rash, as occurs in Lyme disease. Nor is there an easy test for it. Doctors must rely on such circumstantial evidence as a low level of white blood cells and abnormal spots on those cells. And an antibiotic commonly prescribed for Lyme disease--amoxicillin--is useless for treating Ehrlichiosis. Fortunately, there's another drug, doxycycline, that does the trick. Left untreated, however, severe cases of the infection can kill in a few days...