An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this ...

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The One Health framework can help address these issues by promoting safer, sustainable farming practices and reducing ...

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Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, blood staining her thighs. Feverish and vomiting the day of her baby ...

Antibiotics (germ-killing medicine) may have little to no effect on infection of the lining of the uterus after a retained placenta is manually removed, but the evidence is very uncertain.

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