Antibiotics

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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Jayme Fraser USA TODAY NETWORKPublished 12:24 PM EDT May 26, 2020Mike McMahon vacationed with his family at Disney World in late January. Back in Boston a few days later, he started to feel lousy.He “couldn’t go from laying on the bed to sitting up without being out of breath,” he…

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…

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NATURE BRIEFING 20 May 2020 Studies have shown tentatively positive results, but it’s still too soon to say whether the vaccines actually work. Plus: a major update for carbon dating, and the search for a ninth planet in our Solar System. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this…

NATURE BRIEFING 20 May 2020 Studies have shown tentatively positive results, but it’s still too soon to say whether the vaccines actually work. Plus: a major update for carbon dating, and the search for a ninth planet in our Solar System. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this…

In the last few weeks, I’ve lost two patients of mine at the primary care clinic in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where I work as a physician. But I didn’t lose them to COVID-19. I lost them to drugs.  James had been in remission for months from substance use disorder and was…