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Article: Rx for Sinus Patients: Wait; Antibiotics Don't Relieve Most Infections, Says Study

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If you're one of the 20 million Americans who get a sinus infection each year, experts agree: You're being prescribed antibiotics too often. Now some are saying you shouldn't get them at all.

Antibiotics should never be prescribed for otherwise healthy adults with sinusitis, an analysis of a collection of studies concludes in The Lancet. Belgian and Swiss researchers who reviewed data from nine clinical trials involving more than 2,500 people with sinus infections found that the vast majority who received antibiotics didn't need them. That's because while 80 percent of

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