After being prescribed antibiotics for a suspected urinary tract infection (UTI), Adam Sawczuk was expecting to bounce back to health within days. ‘My GP decided to prescribe stronger fluoroquinolone antibiotics [called ofloxacin] after a seven-day course of a milder antibiotic [doxycycline] hadn’t worked,’ says Adam, 32, an NHS psychologist who lives in Carlisle, Cumbria. Dr Millar says: ‘I am still seeing the same number of patients for side-effects of fluoroquinolones as I did before guidance was issued. The researchers, from the Medical University of Vienna, in Austria, compared the responses of two groups of patients having chemotherapy. The patients who watched the films felt less worried about their situation after treatment than those who didn’t watch the films.

Source: Daily Mail September 14, 2020 21:04 UTC