As The Herald reports today, despite a long-running campaign to limit the unnecessary (and marginal) use of antibiotics, it has emerged there was a rise in prescribing of more than 18% between 2004 and 2008.
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Doctors should reduce the use of antibiotics
Antibiotics were the single greatest life-saving advance of 20th century medicine. Yet there is now a danger that our grandchildren will be as vulnerable to simple biological infections as our grandparents were.
