The end of antibiotic stewardship, 2013 edition
Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention,
Back in the 1990's when I was a wide-eyed ID fellow, I'd wonder out loud to my co-fellows Sara Cosgrove and Dan Levy why it was…
Back Pain: An Infectious Process?
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I wrote a piece for Big Think the other day about the recent finding that many cases of back pain are septic in nature: the…
Antibiotics for Low Back Pain
Science-Based Medicine,
Low back pain is a particularly frustrating condition that is common, poorly understood, and difficult to treat. Could a long…
Antibiotics for Back Pain
Big Think,
It sounds preposterous: antibiotics for back pain? What on earth could antibiotics possibly do for back pain? Then again, it…
Acne bacteria to blame for back pain?
The Brain Bank,
What do acne and chronic back pain have in common? Well, as it turns out, more than people once thought. A group at the…
Can Antibiotics Cure Chronic Back Pain?
Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES,
Considerable excitement was recently generated by newly-reported research finding that a significant percentage of patients…
Antibiotics for back pain reality check
SaveYourself.ca,
This is great! A nicely written reality check on the antibiotics for back pain hype, from PubMed. Great stuff.Back pain is one…
@PeterBrukner discusses today’s major headline: Successful antibiotic treatment in a subset of people with chronic low back pain
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It is not often that something I read in the medical research literature gives me goosebumps and an incredible urge to tell…
Clean teeth, bad back? Antibiotics for chronic low back pain.
Body in Mind,
It is unsurprising that there are few-to-no impressively effective treatments for chronic non-specific low back pain. The clue…