Superbugs

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A new web-based system to fight Superbugs in Australian hospitals is being hailed as a likely world first. ...

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A local company tries to turn the human body against Superbugs. ...

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HOME > SCIENCE IN THE NEWS > Science Detail SCIENCE IN THE NEWS from the New Yorker In August, 2000, Dr. ...

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Evidently we weren’t the only ones to wonder how maggots thrive in some of the most disgusting conditions imaginable. Why don’t they get sick? Ask Norman Ratcliffe, a researcher on the immune systems of invertebrates, who has been figuring out the defenses that maggots have going for them. Turns out the little buggers secrete chemicals that [...] ...

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Still catching up after being out sick with an antibiotic resistant infection. But I had to post on this one. The New Yorker has new piece by Jerome Groopman on, well, antibiotic resistant bacteria. See Medical Dispatch: Superbugs: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Thanks to Saul J for pointing this out. I particularly like the ending No one, Moellering said, has developed a way to disarm bacteria sufficiently to allow the human body to naturally and consistently defend against them. I asked him what we should do to combat these new Superbugs. “Nobody has the answer right now,” he said. “The fact of the matter is that we have found all the easy targets” for drug development. He went on, “So the only other thing we can do is continue to work on antibiotic stewardship.” Meanwhile, new resistant bacteria, Moellering asserted, aren’t going to go away. “We can temper things, we might be able to slow the rate of emergence of resistance, but it’s unlikely that we will ever be able to conquer it.” This is from the "Tree of Life" blog ( http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com ) of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Davis. ...

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk --- 10 days ago
A novel way to make bacteria explode has been found that could lead to a new generation of drugs to fight Superbugs. By Roger Highfield ...

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Heavy use of antibiotics on factory farms is creating a range of Superbugs, causing illness on a massive scale and numerous fatalities, a new study claims. ...

Source: news.scotsman.com --- 29 days ago
THE NUMBER of hospital deaths linked to the C.diff superbug has fallen dramatically in the Lothians. ...

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You've all heard of MRSA, but Dr. Jerome Groopman reports in the New Yorker on a number of other drug-resistant infections emerging from American hospitals -- and on how few weapons we have to fight them with. Medical authorities he... ...

Source: www.londonstockexchange.com --- 25 days ago
Concerns over hospital Superbugs and the cleanliness of Trusts are driving demand for private medical insurance (PMI), according to new research from Bupa. ...

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Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com --- 20 hours ago
Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "Superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting. Besides serving as infection-fighting drugs, the substances also could provide a more environmentally-friendly alternative to synthetic antibacterial substances now widely used in personal care items, including soaps and cosmetics, they say. ...

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Scottish research could help combat infectious diseases. ...

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Scientists at two Scottish universities have made a historic breakthrough which could be the first major step towards wiping out the MRSA and Clostridium difficile Superbugs. ...

Source: www.newstrust.net --- 29 days ago
New Yorker - By Jerome Groopman - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - In August, 2000, Dr. Roger Wetherbee, an infectious-disease expert at New York University's Tisch Hospital, received a disturbing call from the hospital's microbiology laboratory. At the time, Wetherbee was in charge of handling outbreaks of dangerous microbes in the hospital, and the laboratory had isolated a bacterium called Klebsiella pneumoniae from a patient in an intensive-care unit... NewsTrust Rating: 3.9 from source rating - Review It Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer ...

Source: beta.cumberland-news.co.uk --- 34 days ago
INFECTION rates for super-bugs have fallen at Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland Hospital. ...

Source: www.limerickpost.ie --- 27 days ago
THE health Minister is being asked to instruct all hospitals to test for individual strains of the ... ...