Antibiotics

Life Sciences Veteran Andrew Wilsack Joins TeamCHELMSFORD, Mass., May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- First Light Diagnostics, Inc., a developer of breakthrough automated products for rapid, sensitive, and cost-effective diagnosis of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections, has appointed Andrew Wilsack as the company's new CFO."Andrew's broad experience across disciplines will be an asset for…

The threat of antibiotic resistance is looming, but artificial intelligence may show the way forward Antibiotic resistance tests. Image: Dr Graham Beards This article appears in the Witness section of the Summer 2020 edition of New Humanist. Subscribe today. Before the development of penicillin, there was a very real danger…

Antonio Bolívar, who appeared in an acclaimed Colombian film, “was one of the last original Ocaina,” his son said.Photograph by Mauricio Duenas Castaneda / ZUMAOn the last Sunday of April, in the small city of Leticia, Colombia, a thirty-eight-year-old security guard named Cristian Bolívar was at work when he received…

Chemistry professor W. Dean Harman led a team developing a new method for manufacturing pharmaceuticals. Credit: Dan Addison, University Communications Medications are developed to work well for most people, but those whose genetic makeup causes them to metabolize medicine too quickly often need higher doses of the drugs they take…

More than half of all women experience at least one episode of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetime, with men also facing increasing risks of infection as they age. Current detection of UTIs rely on patients reporting symptoms followed by a lab culture of the urine for known bacterial…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionUS President Donald Trump said he was taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off Covid-19 Testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for coronavirus has been halted because of safety fears, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.Trials in several countries are…

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By: AP | Published: May 23, 2020 1:07:56 pm Trump repeatedly has pushed the malaria drugs, and has said he is taking hydroxychloroquine to try to prevent infection or minimize symptoms from the coronavirus.Malaria drugs pushed by President Donald Trump as treatments for the coronavirus did not help and were…

— By Sophie Cousins Two-thirds of countries have reported gonorrhoea cases that resist all known antibiotics. Now scientists are trying to hold the line against the disease as they look for a new way to treat it.Mark King has had the clap so many times he’s renamed it ‘the applause’. The…