Antibiotics

Researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Janssen Biotech, Inc. have shown in early tests that a bioengineered drug candidate can counter infection with Staphylococcus aureus -- a bacterial species widely resistant to antibiotics and a major cause of death in hospitalized patients. Experiments demonstrated that SM1B74, an antibacterial…

A medical illustration of Clostridioides difficile bacteria, formerly known as Clostridium difficile, presented in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publication entitled, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019. Credit: CDC Antibiotics help to fight bacterial infections, but they can also harm the helpful microbes living in…

Developed at the University of São Paulo, the device permits corrections to the dosage of the analgesic to improve its efficacy. Credit: Paulo Augusto Raymundo Pereira Consumption of medical drugs such as painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants and antivirals is rising at breakneck speed. Sales of such drugs are set to reach…

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Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar witnessed on Monday the signing of a cooperation protocol between the ministry, represented by the Central Administration for Pharmaceutical Affairs, and Axis Pharma to cooperate in digitizing national surveillance and economic evaluation of antibiotics, and launching the electronic platform for tracking…

A mum claims a false widow spider snuck under her duvet and bit her while she slept - leaving a 50p-sized bite. Tracey Carse, from Stockport, woke up one Saturday morning to find a painful-looking open sore on her right thigh that was red and inflamed. While attending a dermatology…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark, (April 15-18) has identified several gold-based compounds with the potential to treat multidrug-resistant "superbugs." With all 19 compounds tested effective against at least one hard-to-treat bacterium and…

By Amy Norton  HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, April 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A "morning after" dose of a common antibiotic can greatly lower the chances of sexually transmitted bacterial infections in high-risk people, a new clinical trial has found. Researchers discovered that taking the antibiotic doxycycline within 72 hours of…

Comparison of traditional antimicrobials and antivirulence drugs. When exposed to an antimicrobial drug to treat an infection, the healthy microbiota and the pathogen are both impacted. Under such conditions, there is selection for antimicrobial resistance such that resistant microbes can potentially flourish, less impeded by the normal microbiota. When exposed…

Well that's disappointing — We don’t need new gadgets; we need to use antibiotics more sparingly. Diana Gitig - Apr 1, 2023 1:30 pm UTC Enlarge / Once the future of travel, now a museum piece. Vaclav Smil reminds us that despite the onslaught of popular techno-pundits claiming otherwise, immense…