Antibiotics

Some of the first New York City-based volunteers from the contingent of medical professionals who have pledged to help in the fight against coronavirus have registered for shifts, according to the city’s department of health. But tens of thousands more are needed to handle the surge of patients in the…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Pandemics have always been fellow travelers of globalization. A third phenomenon stalks in their shadow: racism.That's worrying. The global threat of Covid-19 seems to be leading not to a unified global response, but to an American president who until Tuesday was describing it as a “Chinese virus” while officials in…

New research has discovered a giant cavity in a key tuberculosis molecule. The giant cavity, in a protein that transports nutrients across the cell membrane, is unlike anything researchers have seen before. Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a…

post office AP/Brynn AndersonAs part of a $10 billion relief package for the US Postal Service, congress authorized the agency to create temporary delivery points. The goal is to reduce human contact and transmission of the coronavirus, and could look a lot like Amazon's locker delivery option. Earlier this week, lawmakers warned…

The New York Blood Center (NYBC) is the first blood-gathering organization in the U.S. to collect plasma from COVID-19 patients to use as a possible treatment for the disease. Before antibiotics rendered the practice moot, it was common to treat infectious bacterial diseases by infusing the blood of recovered patients…

Credit: American Chemical Society Municipal solid waste is trash—such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings—that goes into garbage bins and doesn't get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology have shown that when disposed of…

Erika Cave-Miller is heartbroken. She's in mourning because her husband died of novel coronavirus just before his 45th birthday. She's bewildered, because he was diagnosed with pneumonia, then with coronavirus, then placed on a ventilator, then dead, all within a matter of days. She's scared, because she and her family…

Written by Prabha Raghavan | New Delhi | Updated: March 19, 2020 4:49:50 am Between 2017 and 2019, India doubled its overall imports of raw materials used to make antibiotics, according to data from the Chemicals and Fertilizers Ministry. (File Photo)Indian Missions outside the country have been asked to explore…

The country’s experience combatting tuberculosis highlights that there are other significant hurdles to overcome. Vidya Krishnan March 16, 2020 India's experience combatting tuberculosis illustrates that having the right drugs isn’t always enough.Findlay Kember / AFP via GettyMUMBAI—Debshree Lokhande recalls trying everything to get rid of her cough, including syrups, lozenges,…

Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Georgia may have discovered a way to treat deadly foal pneumonia without promoting multi-drug resistant bacteria. In a clinical trial, they found that gallium maltolate (GaM), a semi-metal compound with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties, could be a viable…