Among medicine's oldest tensions is the one between cure and harm — the drug that saves a life while quietly threatening an organ. Aminoglycoside antibiotics occupy this difficult ground, offering rare power against resistant infections while accumulating in the kidney's filtering cells and causing damage in up to two-thirds of elderly patients. A new review, drawing on pharmacological literature spanning eleven medicinal plants, asks whether nature's own chemistry might shield the kidney without blunting the antibiotic's lifesaving force. The answer is promising but incomplete — a horizon wor
Medicinal plants may shield kidneys from antibiotic damage, review suggests
Drug-induced kidney damage affects up to 66% of elderly patients requiring aminoglycoside antibiotics, potentially leading to acute kidney injury and reduced quality of life.
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