Release Date: January 2008

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE

With the arrival of cold and flu season, you’re probably getting your medicine cabinet ready. But before you stock it with antibiotics, take a second to read Antibiotic Resistance, a fact sheet from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of Women’s Health. It features useful information on how antibiotics work, when you should take them, and common mistakes patients make when taking them. For your free copy, send your name and address to the Federal Citizen Information Center, Dept. 534R, Pueblo, CO 81009. Or call toll-free 1 (888) 8 PUEBLO, that’s 1 (888) 878-3256, and ask for Item 534R. And visit www.pueblo.gsa.gov to read or print this and hundreds of other FCIC publications for free.

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