Popular antibiotics to carry new warning about retinal detachment

The Vancouver Sun reports that fluoroquinolones–a group of popular antibiotics–will now carry a warning label following a second Health Canada review of reports that some of those who used the drugs suffered retinal detachment.

Four years earlier, UBC researchers reported that taking fluoroquinolones increased the chances that patients would be diagnosed with retinal detachment fivefold.

Similar stories appeared in The Province and Ottawa Citizen.