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Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections

Posted by timothy on from the coulda-told-you-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "While doctors routinely prescribe antibiotics to treat sinus infections, researchers on Tuesday revealed that amoxicillin, the most commonly prescribed medication for nasal cavity inflammation and sinuses, was just as effective as a dummy pill. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, found that there was no significant difference in symptoms between patients taking amoxicillin to those who took the placebo three days after starting the pills were administered."

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  1. What does work? by svendsen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Whiskey!

  2. I want a Placebo by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can someone tell me where I can buy a pack of placebos please?

    They seem to be really usefull in fighting off all sorts of diseases.

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    1. Re:I want a Placebo by Hentes · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just ask for homeopathic medicine.

  3. Re:slashdot title also written by a moron by skydyr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't you know that all antibiotics are the same, work on the same infections in the same manner, and are only renamed for marketing purposes and in case some idiot thinks he has an allergy to one?

  4. Re:What does this sentence mean? by geekoid · · Score: 1, Funny

    a Dr. of....?

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