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Antibiotic Defined
a chemical substance produced by a living organism that is detrimental to another organism. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 was the beginning of a revolution in the treatment of bacterial infections.
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What parents should know about insect stings
Published August 20, 2008, 7:05 am, Galveston County Daily News
Sally Robinson and Keith Bly offer tips on what parents should do if their child is stung by a bee or bitten by a spider.
Silver Is The Key To Reducing Pneumonia Associated With Breathing Tubes
Published August 20, 2008, 5:16 am, Medical News Today
People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.
New Method To Overcome Multiple Drug Resistant Diseases Developed By Stanford Researchers
Published August 20, 2008, 4:13 am, Medical News Today
Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them. The problem is well documented for antibiotics, although not confined to them.
Method could help fight drug-resistant diseases
Published August 19, 2008, 10:00 pm, Stanford Report
Stanford researchers have developed a method to get around one of the most common forms of drug resistance. To do it, they took a tip from nature.
Silver Is Key To Reducing Pneumonia Associated With Breathing Tubes
Published August 19, 2008, 9:21 pm, Science Daily
People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. Researchers now report that the silver-coated tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Drinking fruit juice 'may stop medication working'
Published August 19, 2008, 6:15 pm, Daily Mail
Drinking fruit juice dramatically reduces the effectiveness of drugs used to treat cancer, heart conditions and high blood pressure, scientists say.
London News and Reviews
Published August 19, 2008, 2:38 pm, Evening Standard
Drinking fruit juice dramatically reduces the effectiveness of drugs used to treat cancer, heart conditions and high blood pressure, scientists say. Research has shown that orange, apple and grapefruit juice can also wipe out the benefits of some antibiotics and hay-fever pills.
Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
Published August 19, 2008, 1:52 pm, PhysOrg
People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the NASCENT Investigation Group, report that the ...
Silver Is the Key to Reducing Pneumonia Associated with Breathing Tubes
Published August 19, 2008, 1:32 pm, Newswise
Silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the NASCENT Investigation Group report that the silver-coated tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
Published August 19, 2008, 1:27 pm, EurekAlert!
( Washington University School of Medicine ) People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the ...
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Sun Aug 17
- Probiotics Counter Antibiotics: When it comes to a healthly gut, the use of antibiotics is equivalent to throwing the baby out with the bath water. Eradicating pathogenic bacteria with courses of antibiotic drugs also kills off normal intestinal flora. Antibiotic-ass ociated disruption of gastrointestin al flora tract can lead to diarrhea, dehydration and mineral-salt imbalance, particularly among small children. Replacement with beneficial "friendly " bacteria, called probiotics, is in order. Because the 25- to 35-foot-long digestive tract contains some 400 species of bacteria, totaling some 100 billion organisms, repopulation is a considerable task. Favorable bacteria such as Lactobacillus and Bifidus counter the sanitizing effects of antibiotic therapy. Recent scientific studies support this application.
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Thu Aug 14
- Antibiotic Side Effects Responsible for 140,000 ER Visits Every Year: A new study says that side effects from cipro, amoxicillan and other antibiotics send more than 140,000 people to the ER every year.
Tue Aug 12
- Czechs make breakthrough discovery in bacteria DNA: Czech scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, one that research teams all over the world have been striving for for years. Scientists from the University of South Bohemia have detected the structure of an enzyme that can change the DNA in bacteria. The discovery should in time prevent bacteria from being resistant to antibiotics. Ruth Fra?ková spoke to Ruediger Ettrich, the head of the Centre of protein structure and function and one of the people behind the discovery:
Sat Aug 9
- Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: Hoist by our own petard
Thu Aug 7
- Chlamydia drug over-the-count er: For the first time an antibiotic for chlamydia is to be made available from pharmacists (5th August 2008)
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- Facing Apparent Resistance To Antibiotics, Hebrew U. Researchers Develop New Techniques To Kill Dormant Bacteria: Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found new ways to kill dormant bacteria that have become seemingly resistant to antibiotics.
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