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  • Antibiotics no help against most sinus infections: study

    02/15/2012 2:16:21 AM PST · by iowamark · 35 replies
    Reuters ^ | Feb. 14, 2012 | Frederik Joelving
    Antibiotics don't help fight most sinus infections, although doctors routinely prescribe them for that purpose, according to a U.S. study. Researchers whose work was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that antibiotics didn't ease patients' symptoms or get them back to work any sooner than an inactive placebo pill. Antibiotics are known to fuel the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria and experts have grown increasingly worried about overuse. This is a particular concern with sinus infections, because doctors can't tell if the disease is caused by bacteria or by a virus, in which case antibiotics are useless....
  • ARE WE BLIND? (It’s all fun and games until they zot your eye out)

    08/19/2006 8:54:00 AM PDT · by AmericanDragon · 90 replies · 1,963+ views
    Call any Tech Support line, or your bank for that matter. Do you get a fellow American on the other end? Or do you get someone in India that can't help you and just gives you the run around because they don't know any better (which doesn't matter because you can't understand them anyway!). This is not only happening in the Call Center field, but in Technology, Animation and other Media and so forth. This takes away millions of jobs from Americans and at the same time, we have millions of people coming from India who are getting grants to...