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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Medical News:Antibiotics No Help for Sinusitis - in Primary Care, General Primary Care from MedPage Today

Medical News:Antibiotics No Help for Sinusitis - in Primary Care, General Primary Care from MedPage Today: In a randomized trial, patients with acute rhinosinusitis had no differences in symptoms or quality of life three days after starting on amoxicillin compared with patients who received a placebo instead, Jay Piccirillo, MD, of Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"It provides further evidence for what we've really suspected for a long time -- that in the management of patients with acute sinusitis, antibiotics do not convey any additional benefit," Piccirillo said in The JAMA Report.

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