Antibiotics won’t cure sinus infections
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS (US) — The antibiotics that doctors prescribe for sinus infections do not reduce symptoms any better than a placebo.“Patients don’t get better faster or have fewer symptoms when they get antibiotics,” says Jay F. Piccirillo, professor of otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis and the study’s senior author....
Source: Futurity.org - Friday, 17 February
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