With little evidence that failing to complete a prescribed antibiotic course contributes to antibiotic resistance, it is time for policy makers, educators, and doctors to drop this message, argues Martin Llewelyn, professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Antibiotics are crucial to modern medicine but antibiotic resistance is a global, urgent threat to human health. Historically, antibiotic courses were driven by fear of undertreatment, with less

Are you struggling with a problem related to a pain medicine? You are not alone. In fact, many people start taking opiates as part of a prescribed pain management plan. One of the risks of using these overdose. In an opioid overdose, patients pass out, their breathing slows or stops, or they may die. After treatment for opioid overdose, several Medicaid patients still receive prescriptions for the same drug that nearly killed them, researchers say. According to investigators