Antibiotics & Weight Gain: Are They Causing Obesity?

Antibiotics are potent medications that are most commonly used to treat (or in some cases prevent) serious bacterial infections that would otherwise cripple our body’s defenses and prove fatal. One potential issue associated with using antibiotics, particularly if used for a long-term, is significant weight gain. It is known that antibiotics have been used as …

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New Tuberculosis Treatments (Drugs & Regimens)

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the pathogen “Mycobacterium tuberculosis” – a bacterium with a waxy coating on its cellular surface due to the presence of mycolic acid. Although tuberculosis is often successfully treated with antibiotics and sometimes prevented with the BCG vaccine – there are many cases of TB that: (A) are not …

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