At first, you may barely notice the symptoms of hypothyroidism, such as fatigue and weight gain, or you may simply attribute them to getting older. But as your metabolism continues to slow, you may develop more-obvious signs and symptoms. Hypothyroidism signs and symptom may include: Fatigue.
Studies have estimated that, in the United States, antibiotic resistance adds $20 billion in excess direct health care costs, with additional costs to society for lost productivity as high as $35 billion a year. The use of antibiotics is the single most important factor leading to antibiotic resistance.
Frequently, hospitals put patients into individual rooms and use gowns and gloves when they have resistant organisms, like MRSA and VRE, and Gram-negative-resistant infections, like Acinetobacter or Pseudomonas, said Elise Martin, MD, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles.