What cures you may also ail you: Antibiotics, your gut and you

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 11:21 in Health & Medicine

We are always being told by marketers of healthy yogurts that the human gut contains a bustling community of different bacteria, both good and bad, and that this balance is vital to keeping you healthy. But if you target the disease-causing bacteria with medicine, what might be the collateral damage to their health-associated cousins that call the human body home?...

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