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Antibiotics are drugs used to treat infections caused by bacteria and other microorganisms.

Study reveals how common drug-resistant superbug responds to ‘last resort’ antibiotic

A study published today in Cell Reports reveals how populations of a bacterium called Pseudomonas respond to being treated with Colistin, a 'last resort' antibiotic for patients who have developed multi-drug resistant infections.

7 Jun 2022

Study demonstrates how some fast-growing bacteria can evade antibiotic treatment

Scientists have demonstrated how some fast-growing bacteria can retreatment with antibiotics, according to a study published today in eLife.

7 Jun 2022

Study offers clues about the shift of harmless environmental bacterium to a dreaded pathogen

Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are often particularly difficult to treat because the pathogens have developed resistance to common antibiotics.

3 Jun 2022

Antibiotics ravage motivation and endurance in athletes

New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes' motivation and endurance.

1 Jun 2022

Liver4Life research team treated damaged liver in a machine and then implanted the recovered organ

The multidisciplinary Zurich research team Liver4Life has succeeded in doing something during a treatment attempt that had never been achieved in the history of medicine until now: it treated an originally damaged human liver in a machine for three days outside a body and then implanted the recovered organ into a cancer patient.

31 May 2022

New class of antibiotics found to be highly effective against drug-resistant tuberculosis

Infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people worldwide every year. Antibiotics to treat TB exist, but in recent years, multi-drug resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and totally drug-resistant (TDR) strains of the bacterium have developed.

31 May 2022

Oil-based gels could make it easier for children to swallow medicines

For most children and even some adults, swallowing pills or tablets is difficult. To make it easier to give those medicines, researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have created a drug-delivering gel that is much easier to swallow and could be used to administer a variety of different kinds of drugs.

27 May 2022

Study: Most clinicians do not follow recommendations against prescribing antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria

An estimated 70 percent of primary care physicians reported in a survey that they would still prescribe antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections based solely on a positive urine specimen.

27 May 2022

Researchers discover bifunctional lipopeptide antibiotic with a low resistance potential

Through bioinformatic prospecting, researchers discovered and synthesized a novel, naturally inspired bifunctional lipopeptide antibiotic with a low resistance potential.

27 May 2022

Exposure of microbial communities to antibiotics could facilitate the spread of plasmid-encoded genes

DNA molecules called plasmids – some of which protect bacteria from antibiotics – can spread rapidly through bacterial "communities" that are treated with antibiotics, new research shows.

27 May 2022

Diabetes drug can improve the efficiency and efficacy of antibacterial treatments

Old dogs may not learn new tricks, but old drugs can, according to a research team based in China. The collaboration found that Metformin, a small molecule drug that has been used to treat type II diabetes for more than 50 years, can improve the efficiency and efficacy of antibacterial treatments for quick wound-healing in mice.

27 May 2022

Aston University’s new antibiotic combination forms part of a lifesaving treatment for cystic fibrosis

A new antibiotic combination developed by researchers at Aston University has formed part of a lifesaving treatment used in the USA.

26 May 2022

Inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for children associated with excess health-care costs

Antibiotics inappropriately prescribed to nonhospitalized children resulted in at least $74 million in excess health-care costs in the U.S. in 2017, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

26 May 2022

Researchers focus on how bacterial cells adapt and resist antibiotics

Treatment of severe infections caused by pathogenic bacteria relies on ‘last resort’ antibiotics, but rising resistance by ‘superbugs’ to most clinically approved drugs leaves patients exposed to possible fatalities.

26 May 2022

STIs could be prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex

A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) - gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis - were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial that closed early because it was very effective for men who have sex with men and transgender women who are living with HIV or are taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

25 May 2022

Older adults taking antibiotics more likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease

The more antibiotics prescribed to patients 60 and older, the more likely they were to develop inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting antibiotic use could explain some of the growth in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis in older people, according to a review of 2.3 million patient records in a study selected for presentation at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

24 May 2022

Antibiotic rifampicin attenuates C9orf72-linked dementia in genetically modified mice

What did Stephen Hawking and Mao Zedong have in common? They both suffered from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a cure for which remains elusive. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University took an important step toward prevention of ALS and another brain disorder called Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) with their research on the effects of the antibiotic rifampicin on genetically modified mice.

23 May 2022

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine-associated tinnitus responds to transcranial magnetic stimulation

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine-associated tinnitus was relieved with a brief course of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation treatment.

23 May 2022

Five medical organizations release new guidance for preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

In the second in series of updates on guidance for infection control in acute-care hospitals, five medical organizations are recommending best practices for preventing hospital-associated pneumonia. Pneumonia is the most common and deadly healthcare-associated infection.

20 May 2022

Binary amplitude-only holograms with drug-elution capabilities

Holographic devices are used for security enhancement, entertainment, 3D display technologies and augmented reality but not limited to them.

20 May 2022

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Study reveals how common drug-resistant superbug responds to ‘last resort’ antibiotic

Study demonstrates how some fast-growing bacteria can evade antibiotic treatment

Study offers clues about the shift of harmless environmental bacterium to a dreaded pathogen

Antibiotics ravage motivation and endurance in athletes

Liver4Life research team treated damaged liver in a machine and then implanted the recovered organ

New class of antibiotics found to be highly effective against drug-resistant tuberculosis

Oil-based gels could make it easier for children to swallow medicines

Study: Most clinicians do not follow recommendations against prescribing antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria

Researchers discover bifunctional lipopeptide antibiotic with a low resistance potential

Exposure of microbial communities to antibiotics could facilitate the spread of plasmid-encoded genes

Diabetes drug can improve the efficiency and efficacy of antibacterial treatments

Aston University’s new antibiotic combination forms part of a lifesaving treatment for cystic fibrosis

Inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions for children associated with excess health-care costs

Researchers focus on how bacterial cells adapt and resist antibiotics

STIs could be prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex

Older adults taking antibiotics more likely to develop inflammatory bowel disease

Antibiotic rifampicin attenuates C9orf72-linked dementia in genetically modified mice

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine-associated tinnitus responds to transcranial magnetic stimulation

Five medical organizations release new guidance for preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

Binary amplitude-only holograms with drug-elution capabilities

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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