Antibiotics

From Jason Crawford, Emergent Ventures winner in Progress Studies: …the surprising thing I found is that infectious disease mortality rates have been declining steadily since long before vaccines or antibiotics… In 1900, the most deaths came from tuberculosis, influenza/pneumonia, and gastroenteric diseases such as dysentery. All of these were effectively conquered…

The FDA sent a warning letter to Gojo Industries, Purell's parent company, telling the company to stop claiming that its hand sanitizer can prevent diseases like Ebola and MRSA.Gojo said it will remove the misleading language from its website. Some of the claims the FDA objected to appear to have…

The world is in the midst of a global superbug crisis. Antibiotic resistance has been found in numerous common bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis, making them difficult if not impossible to treat. Were on the cusp of a …

A 52-year-old hairdresser developed a life-threatening blood disorder her doctors believe was the result of "Brazilian blowdry" treatments she'd been preparing for clients. The case, published in the January issue of BMJ Case Reports, is the first of its kin…

The FDA has given clearance for the first clinical trial in the United States to test an IV-administered bacteriophage-based therapy to kill drug-resistant bacteria. The agency accepted an investigational new drug application for the planned trial from researchers at the University of California, San Diego, according to a news release.…

Nova Scotia is declaring a provincial outbreak of syphilis after seeing a jump in the number of cases last year. Public health officials said today there were 82 cases recorded in 2019, compared with 50 in 2018 and 38 in 2017. Twenty per cent of the cases l…

The clearest indicator of the climate crisis is heat, and Earth is frickin hot. In fact, we just wrapped up the hottest decade in recorded human history. The 2010s saw eight of the planets 10 hottest years on record. And last year was a particularly hot one. …

All life on Earth has evolved to cope with a rotating planet which results in the predictable transition between day and night. The details differ between plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals, but the consistent feature is a biological clock that allows the o…

Tolerance to antibiotics affects response