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Antibiotics vs. Bacteria: Fighting the Resistance
Antibiotics are medicines that fight bacterial infections. Used properly, they can save lives. But what if we couldn’t fight back against bacterial infections? Many types of common infectious bacteria are quickly gaining the ability to thwart our antibiotics, leaving infections much more difficult to treat. Antibiotic resistance is happening quickly because of overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Watch this video from MedlinePlus to learn more.
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Research at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC)
The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) develops advanced health information resources and software tools.
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This set of tooling services brings together many health and biomedical vocabularies and standards to enable interoperability between computer systems.
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