Recent Study Shows Link Between Two Types of Antibiotic and Birth Defects

For many women, having children is the most important thing they will ever do. We are programmed genetically to reproduce in order to allow our species to survive. We are animals, and like many animals, we protect our young. This need to protect our children is also why it is scary that two common antibiotics have recently been linked to causing birth defects.

A recent study showed that two common antibiotics may cause birth defects. The two drugs in the study were nitrofurantoins (sold under the brand names Macrobid and Furadantin) and sulfa drugs (sold under the names Bactrim and Thiosulfil Forte). However, this was only the first study to show these results and further testing will be needed in order to confirm any real findings.

This does not mean that ALL antibiotics will cause birth defects. The only thing these findings mean is that you have to talk with your doctor about taking certain medications. You need to understand what some of these different medicines do. You must weigh the potential risks of the drug against the benefits. Take some time to really find out all the courses of action.

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Low Supply and High Demand Create Long Lines For H1N1 Vaccinations

Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, you probably know how busy the H1N1 vaccination clinics have been. The stories of waiting times of about 5 hours have been spreading across the internet, radio, and television. Part of this has to do with the large number of people going to get their shots, but another part is due to the supply being much, much lower than originally anticipated.

Drug manufacturers had told United States officials that 120 million doses would be available come October 1st. We are now into the first week of November and only 26.6 million doses have been shipped. Someone, somewhere, screwed up, big time.

When you estimate 120 million available doses, try to have at least somewhere close to that number. 110 million, 100 million, even 90 million, but 26.6 million? I think someone might need to go back to school an re-take a math course, maybe two. Either way I find this staggering difference in promised products and delivered products to be very unacceptable.

So, I have to urge everyone to really think if they need the shot right away. Maybe think about all the people that have a higher risk of dieing from the flu. They should be reeving the first vaccinations, but instead they are forced to wait in lines for hours, and even then they don't always get the vaccine. So all I am asking is that you really make sure that if you're going to get the H1N1 vaccine be one of those 'high risk' people.

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Misuse of Aspirin May Be Linked To 1918 Pandemic Deaths

Could some deaths in the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic been prevented? Well an article published in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID), believes that the rather high doses of aspirin given in an attempt to treat patients may have only raised the number of deaths from the 1918 influenza.

The author of the article, Karen Starko debates that "The high case fatality rate especially among young adults…is incompletely understood. Although late deaths showed bacterial pneumonia, early deaths exhibited extremely 'wet,' sometimes hemorrhagic lungs."

Starko then talks about how the high doses of aspirin were a contributing factor. She describes how doctors in 1918 were unaware that certain doses (8g-31g of aspirin a day) are actually related to hyperventilation and pulmonary edema in some people.

In fact, Starko cites the US Surgeon General's recommendation that aspirin should be taken. This was just before a spike in the number of deaths in 1918. She goes on to suggest that if the advice was followed, many of the deaths could have been a result of aspirin.

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