Tag: antibiotics

Tyson Foods Will Remove ‘No Antibiotics’ Label on Some Chicken Products

Tyson Foods announced it will drop its “no antibiotics ever” label on some of its chicken products after it decided to reintroduce certain drugs in its chickens. This comes eight years after the Arkansas-based meat and poultry producer said it planned to remove antibiotics from its products, reported The Wall Street Journal. The largest poultry seller in…


Should You Take Probiotics With Antibiotics?

If you leave your doctor’s office with a prescription for antibiotics, you may have very mixed feelings. Of course, you want to clear up an infection, but at what cost to the beneficial bacteria in your gut microbiome? In the story of modern medicine, antibiotics play the role of both hero and villain. Few other…


The Problem of Lost Knowledge: Antibiotic Edition

Commentary The first evidence of lost knowledge in 2020 concerned natural immunity. How in the world did it come to be that people did not generally know that for respiratory viruses, infection and recovery is the best vaccine? This was the counterintuitive wisdom taught for generations in public school in the postwar period. The point…


Know the Signs of the Life-Threatening Colon Infection Clostridioides Difficile

Peggy Lillis was a healthy single mom raising two boys and working extra jobs on the weekend. All that ended on April 21, 2010, when an ICU doctor told her son Liam that his mom, who had been healthy just a week earlier, was dead from a Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). CDI is a colon…


Antibiotic Shortage Amidst the Rise of Invasive Strep A

Strep A is commonly known to cause mild bacterial infections such as strep throat and impetigo, yet more invasive and deadlier forms of the bacteria are on the rise. Recently, several countries—including the United States—observed an unusual increase in cases of both invasive Strep A and scarlet fever compared with pre-pandemic times. Meanwhile, antibiotics commonly…


China Controls Your Meds

Commentary Democrats and Republicans battered TikTok’s CEO at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday—for good reason. The Chinese app poses a national security risk, accumulating troves of data on its American users. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s slithery comment that “I don’t think spying is the right way to describe it,” only heightened concerns….


Study Finds Silver Nanoparticles Can Supercharge Antibiotics

Antimicrobial-resistant infections are a leading cause of global death, killing nearly 1.3 million people yearly and outpacing malaria and HIV, according to a 2022 study published in The Lancet. In January 2023, a study published in Frontiers in Microbiology confirmed mounting evidence that adding silver nanoparticles to certain antibiotics boosts their ability to kill resistant…


3 Common Foods Give You a Bad Gut Microbiome

The gut microbiome is a complex ecosystem of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, these microbiome are of vital importance to your health. What foods can hurt—or help your microbiome? Health Effects of a Bad Gut Microbiome Dr. Colby Kash, COO and Cofounder of Camelot Biocapital, and author of The Autoimmune Plague: How to Regain…


New Study Reveals Antidepressants Linked to Rise in Superbugs

The term ‘superbug’ conjures images of bacteria with superpowers—able to evade the effects of the antibiotics given to destroy them. The prolific use of antibiotics is thought to be the cause, and bacteria, in a fight for their survival, have adapted—making an increasing number of antibiotics ineffective against a growing number of bacterial infections. A…


Health Canada Will Import Foreign Supply of Children’s Fever and Pain Meds

Health Canada announced Monday it is taking steps to import children’s fever and pain medication, specifically ibuprofen (Advil) and acetaminophen (Tylenol), from a foreign country to alleviate a shortage that has been affecting Canada for months. A Health Canada spokesperson could not provide The Epoch Times with which country the drugs are coming from, an…