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Azithromycin was used early in the pandemic to treat COVID-19 in patients and has continued to be used to fight respiratory ...

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In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 75% of hospitalized COVID patients received antibiotics on admission, ...

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Antibiotics are designed to wipe out infection-causing bacteria, but even a single course can leave a lasting mark on the gut ...

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Doctors prescribe antibiotics to people who have specific bacterial infections. But not all bacterial infections require antibiotics, and some patients improve without taking antibiotics. But there’s ...

Diversity is an omnipresent element in clinical practice: in the genome, in the environment, in patients' lifestyles and habits. Precision medicine addresses the variability of the individual to ...