Antibiotics

Consider a steak. When it hits the hot oil in the pan, your mouth can’t help but water at the aroma. That familiar crackle of fat beginning to fry and render is the sound of the maillard reaction: that wondrous molecular dance of the steak’s amino acids and sugars as…

This illustration shows the atomic level resolution of the tetracycline antibiotic bound to the EphB1 receptor. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Three decades-old antibiotics administered together can block a type of pain triggered by nerve damage in an animal model, UT Southwestern researchers report. The finding, published online today in…

The last time we ran into American swimmer Eleanor Holm, she was being unceremoniously booted off the 1936 Olympic squad for either being catatonically drunk or refusing to sleep with the president of the American Olympic Committee, noted asshole Avery Brundage. It depends on who you ask. At the time,…

IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr.“O Jesus, send me a wound to-day” — Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), English poet and novelist, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918), Stand-to Good Friday Morning  Swearing “Ma-tetano ka sana!”(“I pray you get tetanus!”) quickly dates you as an 80s person in this part of…

For pediatric patients with respiratory tract infections (RTIs), immediately prescribing antibiotics may do more harm than good, based on prospective data from 436 children treated by primary care pediatricians in Spain. In the largest trial of its kind to date, children who were immediately prescribed antibiotics showed no significant difference…

Some popular brands of basil are being recalled due to the potential for parasitic contamination. The basil was imported from Colombia and sold under multiple brand names, and it may be contaminated with Cyclospora parasites.  Symptoms of Cyclospora infections can include severe diarrhea, fatigue, and intense pain. A very important…

Surgeons in France operate on a patient to inject him with phages as a treatment against multi-drug-resistant bacteria.Photo: ROMAIN LAFABREGUE/AFP (Getty Images)As the world continues to work toward defeating a pandemic caused by a virus, another type of pathogen is increasingly becoming a major threat. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been a…

Comparison of growth of Caulobacter crescentus when exposed to an antibiotic (bottom) and not (top). Credit: Carnegie Mellon University New research led by Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Physics Shiladitya Banerjee demonstrates how certain types of bacteria can adapt to long-term exposure to antibiotics by changing their shape. The…

Relief coursed through me last week when I learned my 2-year-old daughter’s daycare provider got her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. It left her feeling more groggy than she expected, but that was a good thing, suggesting the vaccine was kicking her immune system into gear. While I was…

Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The use of fixed-dose combination antibiotics needs to be reconsidered, given questions about their efficacy and safety, as well as their possible role in increasing antibiotic resistance, according to the authors of a study published Wednesday by PLOS One. Fixed-dose drug combinations are defined as "a…