Slipping bacteria some silver could give old antibiotics new life, scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University reported in Science Translational Medicine. Treating bacteria with a silver-containing compound boosted the efficacy of a broad range of...
A new study conducted by a team of Indiana University neuroscientists demonstrates that GLT1, a protein that clears glutamate from the brain, plays a critical role in the craving for cocaine that develops after only several days of cocaine use. The study, appearing in The Journal of...
I went to the doctors, and they told me that I had a UTI. They gave me antibiotics that I was supposed to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks. I was only talking the pills 1 or 2 times a day, and sometimes skipping days all together. When i finally finished the antibiotic, the UTI came back a few...
I went to the doctors, and they told me that I had a UTI. They gave me antibiotics that I was supposed to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks. I was only talking the pills 1 or 2 times a day, and sometimes skipping days all together. When i finally finished the antibiotic, the UTI came back a few...
A leading pharmacist based at Southampton's teaching hospitals has warned it may take the death of a celebrity to highlight the dangers of increasing antibiotic resistance in the UK. Dr Kieran Hand, a consultant pharmacist in anti-infectives at Southampton General Hospital, spoke out following...
One of the world's leading producers of diagnostic tests has been falsely marketing one of their products, an investigation by the BMJ shows. Oxoid, owned by US diagnostics giant Thermofisher, has been selling antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) discs that do not always contain the...
The BBC has a somewhat alarmist new report on the growing strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the world. According to the chief medical officer for England, the rise of antibiotic resistant strains is comparable to the threat of global warming. More »
Be Scared, Humans; Antibiotic...
Antibiotic resistance remains a major threat to public health around the world, and for the large part, the cause is misuse of antibiotics, says the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The ECDC put out the message in a statement released on Sunday to coincide with the...
With their excellent sensitivity and specificity, the use of these extremely efficient tests on a world-wide scale would allow us to adapt antibiotic treatments to the individual's needs and to be more successful in controlling antibiotic resistance, particularly in hospitals. These works were...
As a result of concerns about antibiotic resistance, doctors in the United States are increasingly prescribing newer, more costly and more powerful antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections, one of the most common illnesses in women. New research at Oregon State University suggests that the...
The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (JPIDS) has released the largest and most rigorous evaluation to date of the impact on reducing the days of antibiotic therapy in a children's hospital using a prospective-audit-with-feedback antibiotic stewardship program (ASP). The study...
Patients suffering from the chronic lung condition COPD, which is the third-leading cause of death and disability in the United States, may benefit greatly from a three-times-a-week dose of an antibiotic, according to a study by Virginia Commonwealth University physicians published in the New...
Reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection could be better prevented if a drug that is effective against bacteria in low-oxygen environments is added to the treatment regimen, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in this week's online Early Edition of...
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have discovered a way to maintain the potency of vaccines and other drugs - that otherwise require refrigeration - for months and possibly years at temperatures above 110 degrees F, by stabilizing them in a silk protein made from silkworm...
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a rare, but important risk posed by the antibiotic azithromycin, commonly called a "Z-pack." The study found a 2.5-fold higher risk of cardiovascular death in the first five days of taking azithromycin when compared with another common antibiotic or no...
Clinician-scientists in the Princess Margaret Cancer Program have found a promising approach to treating leukemia, using an old drug in a new way. The proof-of-concept research published today in Cancer Cell (10.1016/j.ccr.2011.10.015) describes how the Canadian team discovered that the...
A common antibiotic added to the usual treatment plan for some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can reduce acute exacerbations sudden onsets of worsened cough, wheezing and labored breathing and improve quality of life, according to findings from the COPD Clinical Research...
Antibiotics can help ward off serious bacterial infections in kidney disease patients who use tubes called catheters for their dialysis treatments. But if antibiotics are used too often, "super bugs" may crop up that are resistant to the drugs. A new randomized controlled clinical trial has...
Working out the structure of a complex formed when a protein binds to DNA has proved to be key in understanding how an antibiotic-producing organism controls resistance to its own antibiotic, and may be an example of how other antibiotic producers regulate export to prevent self-toxicity. The...
Copper-touch surfaces could help prevent antibiotic resistance genes from spreading, researchers explained at the ICPIC (International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control), Geneva, Switzerland. They explained the mechanisms by which copper undermines antibiotic resistance in...