Patients with colds get inappropriate antibiotics in nearly half of visits to doctors, study suggests

Monday, May 8, 2017 - 18:21 in Health & Medicine

Nearly half of Canadian seniors who go to a family doctor about a cold or other non-bacterial infection leave with a prescription for an unnecessary antibiotic, say researchers.

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