One in five hospitalized adults suffer side effects from prescribed antibiotics

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 12:52 in Health & Medicine

A study examining the impact of antibiotics prescribed for nearly 1,500 adult patients found that adverse side effects occurred in one-fifth of them, and that nearly one-fifth of those side effects occurred in patients who didn't need antibiotics in the first place.

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