Antibiotics

Author of the article: Blair Crawford Julie Konzuk has been suffering from Lyme disease since 2007 when she was bitten by four ticks in Virginia. Photo by Madelaine Gravelle /Postmedia Fourteen years after she was bitten by four ticks on a job site in Virginia, Julie Konzuk still struggles with…

MUMBAI: India is facing a shortage of certain antibiotics, key steroids, anti-fungal drugs, life-saving medicines, vitamins and even commonly used paracetamol, amid a severe second wave of Covid-19. This comes even as the drug industry is facing a huge escalation in raw material prices, packaging, transport and logistics costs. Two…

When Ilya Metchnikoff was 8 and running around on his parents’ Panassovka estate in Little Russia, now Ukraine, he was making notes on the local flora like a junior botanist. He gave science lectures to his older brothers and local kids whose attendance he assured by paying them from his…

There are currently only a few synthetic agents that bind to and block the widespread membrane transport proteins, ATP-binding cassette transporters (ABC). Scientists at Goethe University and the University of Tokyo identified four of these macrocyclic peptides as models for a novel generation of active substances. They used methods for…

(From top left to bottom right) (1)Model the KCNQ1 structure and define the binding site; (2) Generate the binding site spheres to represent the curvatures (and thereby the shape) of the binding site. (3) Dock compounds from the Available Chemicals Directory using Mdock by matching the atomic centers of each…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child's ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the ensuing two years compared with giving oral antibiotics to treat ear infections, a randomized trial led by UPMC Children's Hospital of…

Fake Drug Rackets On The Prowl In Rural Areas; Cheap Antibiotics Sold As Remdesivir Representational Image New Delhi: Beware of fake life-saving drugs. Instead of Remdesivir, which is required for critically ill Covid patients, similar-looking vials of Monocef or Zetri, a low-cost antibiotic injection, are being sold in the black…

IMAGE: First author Hans-Peter Grobbel explains some results. view more  Credit: Research Center Borstel, the Leibniz Lung Center Globally, tuberculosis is the most common bacterial infectious disease leading to death. The pathogen causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has a number of peculiarities. One is that it is growing very slowly. While other…

HONG KONG, Apr 26, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - China Medical System Holdings Limited (0867.HK) ("CMS" or the "Company") has been active in the market this year. From the acquisition of Luqa to enter the medical aesthetic market early this year, the Company has attracted the attention of the market.…

News Melissa Doughty Sunday 25 April 2021 Arima resident Kim Francois before her cancer diagnosis. - Kim Francois, 22, was the typical young adult – working, going to the gym, eating well and travelling. That was until she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia four months ago. Cancerresearchuk.org says acute…