levofloxacin

“Clinical trails typically find that one to two percent of people taking these drugs -- among the most familiar of which are ciprofloxacin (Cipro) and levofloxacin (Levaquin) – experience serious side effects, most often psychiatric and central-nervous-system problems.”

The ignored risks of America's most popular antibiotics

“They have taken an antibiotic of this kind and in the name of the substance there is often the words – flox or ox, i.e. ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin.”

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“Dr. Pichichero said the first four patients had ear tubes inserted to treat the infection and the other five were successfully treated with levofloxacin, a powerful antibiotic only approved for use in adults.”

The Wall Street Journal: Ear Bacteria Resist Treatment

“Unresponsive to various combinations of cefotaxime, chlarithromycin, levofloxacin, doxyclycline and Tamiflu.”

Boing Boing: March 16, 2003 - March 22, 2003 Archives

“Among the catalysts he has developed is Ru-BINAP, which is used for the synthesis of (R) - 1,2-propandiol in the production of an antibiotic, levofloxacin.”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001

“(R) - 1,2-propandiol for the industrial synthesis of an antibiotic, levofloxacin.”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2001 - Information for the Public

“Cipro is part of a class of drugs called fluoroquinolones: levofloxacin and ofloxacin are also drugs within that.”

CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001

“The antibiotics to which the staph was resistant included: penicillin and ampicillin; erythromycin; tetracycline; oxacillin, the more modern form of the drug methicillin; the drug combination quinupristin/dalfopristin, known as Synercid; the fluoroquinolones levofloxacin (Levaquin) and ciprofloxacin (Cipro); and the last-resort drugs for very serious staph infections vancomycin and daptomycin.”

Ars Technica

“As of january 2004, health canada received 57 allscripts (levofloxacin oral cipro for infected eyelids 13; interaction 12; dialysis 10; benefit 6), talking four reactions being sunburn (2), position (1), and care (1).”

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