Antibiotics

Bill Clinton was admitted two days ago to a hospital in Los Angeles for treatment of a “non-Covid infection”, a spokesman said. The former US president is suffering from a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, CNN has reported, adding on Friday that doctors and his staff said…

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Bill Clinton has been hospitalized in Irvine, California with possible sepsis, CNN reports. According to a spokesperson, he was admitted to UC Irvine hospital’s intensive care unit with a non-COVID-19 related infection Tuesday. The former president’s doctors, Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack, said in a statement: “He was…

Live maggots are being increasingly used to clean wounds by the NHS amid the threat of antibiotic resistance threatening patients' well-being. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the treatment – which involves applying sterilised fly larvae to wounds to eat dead tissue – was common practice in the…

Northbrook, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/29/2021 -- The report "Polymeric Adsorbents Market by Type (Aromatic(crosslinked polystyrenic matrix), Modified aromatic (brominated aromatic matrix), Methacrylic (methacrylic ester copolymer), and Phenol formaldehyde), End-use Industry, and Region - Global Forecast to 2026" The global polymeric adsorbents market size is projected to grow from USD…

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Two of the three late-breaking abstract sessions coming up this week at the Infectious Disease Week (IDWeek) 2021 Annual Meeting are filled with the most recent evidence on COVID-19 prevention and treatment. Dr Adarsh Bhimraj Adarsh…

The túngara frog is a creature perhaps easily overlooked. Each measuring just around an inch, these frogs have rough brown skin that helps them disappear among the foliage of the forests and wetlands they call home in Central America and the shores of the Caribbean. Yet these diminutive amphibians have…

Zebrafish infected with fluorescent bacteria, Mycobacterium abscessus, shown in red. Credit: Dr. Matt Johansen and the Kremer Lab Mycobacterium abscessus, a relative of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, is responsible for particularly severe damage to human lungs and can be resistant to many standard antibiotics, making infections extremely…

How does a vaccine get developed, studied, approved, distributed, and administered, and then just … disappear? On Episode 34 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene explore what happened to LYMErix, a vaccine for Lyme disease that has been called the only safe and effective vaccine…

CHANGCHUN, CHINA, Sept 16, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Several plants and animals have evolved surfaces with long-term (i.e., days to months) air-retainability to prevent wetting and submersion. One example is Salvinia, a plant floating on water. The secret "how do they maintain an air-mattress" has been unraveled by researchers.…