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Experts say a national drug shortage is endangering patients' health and forcing doctors, pharmacists and first responders to scramble to find supplies. The shortage is affecting pharmacists, especially in rural Arizona, who are paying more and spending more time to get drug supplies.

Experts say a national drug shortage is endangering patients' health and forcing doctors, pharmacists and first responders to scramble to find supplies. The shortage is affecting pharmacists, especially in rural Arizona, who are paying more and spending more time to get drug supplies. Read more»

In addition to treating diseases and infections in food-producing animals, antibiotics such as cephalosporins also are used to prevent illnesses. The use of antibiotics for the disease-fighting technique is a controversial issue.

A study of chicken byproducts co-authored by an Arizona State University researcher found trace amounts of antibiotics banned from poultry production in 2005. Read more»

A class of antibiotics typically used to treat pneumonia in cattle will soon be under greater restriction, according to the Food and Drug Administration. In order to protect the effectiveness of the drug cephalosporins in humans, certain uses are prohibited in cattle, chickens, turkeys and swine.

Proposed federal restrictions on the use of certain antibiotics in livestock and poultry wouldn’t have much an effect on Arizona’s farms and ranches, according to experts here. Read more»

Scientists are warning of a new, untreatable strain of gonorrhea, discovered in a sex trade worker in Japan. Read more» 1