Antibiotics

A global look reveals contamination by antibiotics, antidepressants and other medications Yamuna River in New Delhi, seen in 2019, was one of the rivers sampled to determine what pharmaceuticals might be polluting them. Credit: Noemi Cassanelli/AFP/Getty Images For more than 20 years scientists have known that the drugs we take,…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain According to new research by investigators at the Mayo Clinic and Washington State University, e-bandages could be an effective alternative to antibiotics for managing wound infections. The findings are presented at ASM Microbe 2022, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. In a recent…

Robust disease surveillance, vaccine manufacturing and distribution, and antibiotics management are tools that should be strengthened. A young woman reacts as a health worker injects her with the Ebola vaccine, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. We've learned many lessons about the spread of disease; now we need to strengthen…

Using advanced microscopy techniques, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University in Sweden have visualized in unprecedented detail the machinery that the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria, use to form their proteins. The results, which are published in Nature, raise hopes of more specific antibiotics and new cancer drugs in the…

A model has been developed to help the Food Standards Agency (FSA) assess the risk for consumers from AMR associated bacteria in food. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is where microorganisms survive antimicrobial treatments such as antibiotics and make infections more difficult to treat. To test the tool on various pathogens and…

OK Computer at 25 is as musically impressive as it was the day of its release, and more relevant than ever...Read More

SAN DIEGO – Treatments to eradicate Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections do increase the antibiotic resistance of the gut microbiota, but for only a few months, researchers reported at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW). The finding applies similarly to levofloxacin quadruple therapy and bismuth quadruple therapy, both of which are equally…

Aminah Farid Updated 1 day ago · Published on 27 May 2022 11:00AM · Malaysia is becoming more reliant on imported food and has a food trade deficit, according to the Statistics Department. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 27, 2022. PUTRAJAYA must stop blaming fishermen and farmers for…

DDoS protection by Cloudflare Ray ID: 712ac3e75c489bc5 Read More

Plague may seem like an ancient disease, but the bacterium that causes it persists in rodents and fleas around the world. Researchers are warning that it could resurface in a form that our antibiotics can't treat and cause another pandemic Health 25 May 2022 By Graham Lawton The bacteria that…