X-Message-Number: 24605
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:25:48 -0700
From: James Swayze <>
Subject: Antibiotic May Trigger Cardiac Deaths



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Antibiotic May Trigger Cardiac Deaths


2 hours ago   
By LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from 
...More...

- A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from 
strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac 
arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study 
found.

The study shows the need for continuing research on the safety of older 
medicines such as the widely prescribed drug, erythromycin, including 
how they interact with newer medicines, said researcher Wayne A. Ray, a 
professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of 
Medicine in Nashville.

In patients taking erythromycin along with other drugs that increase its 
concentration in the blood, the risk of cardiac death was more than five 
times greater, Ray and his colleagues found. That translates to six 
deaths for every 10,000 people taking erythromycin for the typical two 
weeks while on the other drugs.

"This is an unacceptably high risk," Ray said.[cont.]

Makes one wonder what other wolf in sheep's clothing killers are out there.

James

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