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Can I Take Vitamins If I Am Taking Antibiotics?

Some vitamins and dietary supplements may be helpful to take with certain antibiotics. For example, taking probiotic supplements may help manage common side effects of antibiotic use, such as diarrhea ...
Post-Bulletin

FDA acts to restrict use of cephalosporin drugs

CLARISSA, Minn. — When Pat Lunemann scans the treatment options for his dairy cows, he sees several useful drugs in the cephalosporin class. Naxcel and Excede are a couple. Excede, in particular, is ...
Los Angeles Times

CDC Discourages Use of Popular Anti-Gonorrhea Drugs

Only the cephalosporin class of antibiotics has been proved to work without resistance, but those drugs typically cost more per pill and sometimes must be injected. Experts do not believe, however, ...
MedPage Today

Antibiotics and Blood Glucose

This article looked at trials that have examined the effects of antibiotic use on glucose levels in patients with diabetes. One 2013 study looked 78,000 patients with diabetes from January 2006 to ...
Houston Chronicle

(PZ) Basilea Announces Positive Phase III Results for Ceftobiprole, its First-In-Class Anti-MRSA Cephalosporin

BASEL, Switzerland, March 2, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. announces today positive results for its first comparative phase III trial with ceftobiprole. Ceftobiprole showed a high ...

Novartis buys antibiotics business from GSK in generics push

Swiss drugmaker Novartis' <a href=" target="_blank">(NOVN.S) generics division is buying a GlaxoSmithKline <a href=" target="_blank">(GSK.L) antibiotics business that includes the brands Zinnat, ...