Antibiotics

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in mice with malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, accelerated their metastatic bone growth, likely because the drugs depleted the mice's intestinal flora and weakened their immune response, according to a new study by researchers at Emory University in…

A new study by Lancet has found that India severely overuses antibiotics and a huge part of the formulations that the country's private sector uses aren't even approved by the Central drug regulator. The private sector's use contributes to about 85-90 per cent of the total antibiotic use in India…

In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters that sieved them from his samples. So he substituted filters with slightly larger holes: 1.35 microns instead of 0.2 micron. No viruses, which normally reproduce very quickly, grew on the…

For physicians using a smartphone-based clinical decision-support tool, incorporating an algorithm aimed at estimating the probability that diarrhea is due to a viral cause failed to reduce antibiotic prescribing, a randomized crossover trial conducted in Mali and Bangladesh found. In the study of more than 900 children with acute diarrhea,…

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Austin-based Whole Foods Market Inc. likely hasn’t been served with the notice it is being sued; it will likely choose its words carefully when it does respond. That’s because the complaint against Whole Foods is mostly about words. “This consumer fraud action concerns Whole Foods’ material misrepresentations and omissions about…

Public hospitals saw worrying rise in cases of CPE, a superbug resistant to powerful antibiotics...Read More

A Whole Foods Market store is seen in Santa Monica, California, U.S. March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/ Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comAug 23 (Reuters) - Whole Foods Market was sued on Tuesday by three consumers and an animal welfare nonprofit, in a lawsuit accusing the Amazon.com Inc…

Annie O’Brien’s obstetrician knew there was a golden hour for giving antibiotics for sepsis, but it still took longer for the pregnant mum to be given the drugs she needed. The 37-year-old died from multi-organ failure caused by the infection within hours of delivering her baby stillborn and less than…