1-"If we continue to pop antibiotics like sweets, the reality is that, when we really need them for what could be a life---___________ illness, there will be no life---____________ antibiotics left to take."
2-Mrs Glover said that the public's over-___________ on antibiotics and ___________ to complete courses of medication was also contributing to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
3-____________ bacteria are exposed to antibiotics, ___________ the chance that they will build up resistance to the drugs.
4-A study of patients with sore throats in South Wales, published in the British Medical Journal, showed __________ doctors often prescribed antibiotics ___________ they felt patients did not want to waste time with other treatments. 5-They also said it was quicker to prescribe the drugs ____________ explain the negative effects of overusing antibiotics, ______________ patients often did not understand.
6-A survey found that 55% of the 250 _____________ wrongly thought antibiotics could cure all ___________, and 47% that they could cure all cases of flu and colds.
7-One in five thought antibiotics were a cure-all for sore ______________ and earache, and one in three that they could cure all stomach _______________.
8-The survey also found that one in three people sometimes forget to take their tablets, ______________ 16% of men and 8% of women admitted that they stopped taking the antibiotics ___________ they began to feel better.
9-The researchers said a third of patients expected to be given antibiotics ____________ they attended the GP surgery, ___________ they did not tell the doctor this.
10-For instance, __________ doctor would prescribe a single dose of antibiotics for a urinary tract infection, while __________ doctor would prescribe a course of drugs lasting for many months.
11-In one of the studies, both of ___________ are published in the September 1st issue of the British Medical Journal, investigators calculated the number of side effects in over 34,000 procedures performed __________ a 4-week period by 574 professional acupuncturists.
12-But White, the author of the second study, notes __________ he was surprised __________ as many as 1% of patients were made worse for a short while after acupuncture.
13-Swallowing ____________ than 10 tablets of the most commonly prescribed iron supplement (ferrous sulphate, 200 milligrams) can be ___________ to a toddler. If a child takes an overdose of iron, medical advice should be sought immediately.
14-Light drinking, and even relatively heavy alcohol _____________, appears to protect elderly adults from small blockages in brain blood vessels known ___________ ``silent strokes.'' The trade-off is that drinking of any kind may help kill off brain cells.
15-However, Mukamal pointed __________, cell death does not fully explain the brain shrinkage seen with heavy drinking, _____________ studies of alcoholics show some brain atrophy can be reversed.
16-By testing these viruses in mice and judging ____________ sick they made the animals, the researchers identified a single mutation in a gene called PB2 that probably made the 1997 virus turn _____________.
17-``For the drugs to be of any use, huge _____________ would need to be immediately available, and means for their rapid distribution would need to be in place beforehand,'' they write. But ``supplies of these drugs at the moment are woefully ______________.''
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