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In the future even cuts can have fatal consequences, with drug resistant infections killing 10m people a year. Is this just a projection? The FT travels through time with artist Nina Dunn to see how we can stop the next global health crisis

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The possibility of rapidly identifying antibiotic resistant bacteria can play a significant role in solving the global antibiotic crisis by facilitating the targeted and timely administration of pharmaceutical drugs. At present, the process of bacterial infection diagnostics take up to three days, which leads to less effective antibiotic treatment.

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The European Center for Disease Control published a warning over antibiotic resistant cases of diptheria found in Switzerland and Germany

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Persistent lung infections, chronic wounds, and health care-associated infections are typically much more difficult to treat than other types of bacterial infections. This is because they are often caused by biofilms, that is, colonies of microbes—mainly bacteria— that grow together in a self-produced matrix that protects and isolate them from the external environment.

Two drug firms will be paid up to £10 million a year for an antibiotic by NHS England, no matter how much or little of the medicines are used

Antibiotics are standard treatments for fighting dangerous bacterial infections. Yet the number of bacteria developing a resistance to antibiotics is increasing. Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of São Paulo are overcoming this resistance with light.

Tiny Earth conducts research aiming to discover new bacteria that could be more effective in combating illnesses than current antibiotics. The organization trains university ...The post How Tiny Earth pushes boundaries of antibiotic research appeared first on The Badger Herald.

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD, has been shown for the first time to kill the bacteria responsible for gonorrhoea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.

About 1.3 million deaths were directly caused by drug-resistant bacterial infections in 2019, a global study estimates

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We’ve long known that bacteria can evolve resistance to antibiotics but now it looks like other drugs, including ibuprofen, may help this resistance spread

There are other persistent, grave health crises brewing besides the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Antibiotic resistance is one, and the troubling trend is that it’s on the rise, leading to an increase in so-called ‘superbugs’ that are difficult to treat. IBM Research, working in part…

Bacteria armed with a CRISPR-based weapon that infects other microbes during the bacterial equivalent of sex could help us kill off dangerous antibiotic-resistant superbugs – if regulators approve their use

0819 (December 9) – The death toll among children who are infected with the Strep A virus has risen to 15.  The news of the latest death comes as pharmacists say there is a shortage of antibiotics to treat the children, a claim that the government denies.  With the virus easily misdiagnosed experts have warned […]The post UPDATE Death toll rises to 15 as pharmacists warn of antibiotic shortage appeared first on Euro Weekly News.

Ever since I read a WHO report in 2014 that stated antibiotic-resistant bacteria could kill more people each year than cancer by 2050, I  have been looking for signs of hope that we ...

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium is a widespread and dangerous hospital germ. It infects the respiratory tract and lungs and possesses natural resistance to numerous antibiotics. There is an ongoing search for so-called pathoblockers to be able to combat the bacterium better in the future. The focus here is not on killing the pathogen, as would be the case with antibiotic treatment, but rather on specifically eliminating or ameliorating its pathogenic effect.

Experts warned that antibiotic resistance is fuelling the soaring numbers of sepsis admissions and warned UK parents to be extra vigilant for signs of the illness.

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Antibiotics are standard treatments for fighting dangerous bacterial infections. Yet the number of bacteria developing a resistance to antibiotics is increasing. Researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of São Paulo are overcoming this resistance with light.

Babies whose mothers were vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus had less need for drugs against bacterial infections

It is something of a horror story. Children are getting sick with a perfectly treatable illness but parents are struggling to get their hands on the right drug — penicillin, no less — and some are dying. People are visiting eight, nine pharmacies and travelling to different cities to fill their prescriptions. The Government says there is no overall shortage in the UK — though there is an export ban — and anyway, that means little to the parents dealing with the sharp end of a local lack of the necessary drugs.

Bacteria-killing viruses can be used to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs, and the approach has been tried in more than 100 people in Belgium since a 2019 change in regulations

Patients given wrong dose, wrong type or poor quality medicines because supply is waning

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been found in over 80 per cent of private homes in Germany, mostly in shower drains, but also in dishwashers and washing machines

Lupin Gets U.S. FDA Nod To Market Generic Antibiotic Drug

The antipsychotic medication aripiprazole has been shown to help adults over 60 with treatment-resistant depression.The post Relief for treatment-resistant depression appeared first on Advanced Science News.

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

A new study, drawing from a vast array of data, estimates that 1.27 millions deaths were caused worldwide by bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019, exceeding the combined toll of HIV/AIDS and malaria.

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

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It is something of a horror story. Children are getting sick with a perfectly treatable illness but parents are struggling to get their hands on the right drug — penicillin, no less — and some are dying. People are visiting eight, nine pharmacies and travelling to different cities to fill their prescriptions. The Government says there is no overall shortage in the UK — though there is an export ban — and anyway, that means little to the parents dealing with the sharp end of a local lack of the necessary drugs.

A strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA seems to have colonised the skin of hedgehogs more than 200 years ago – and many other similarly evasive bugs might exist in nature

An urgent drive to develop infection-fighting drugs for the wounded led to the mass production of the first effective antibiotic.

(marketscreener.com) British drugmaker GSK saidon Thursday it would take a stake in Spero Therapeuticsas part of a licensing agreement for the U.S.-based drugdeveloper's experimental antibiotic for complicated urinarytract infections. GSK will pay Spero $66 million upfront for the antibiotictebipenem HBr and buy $9 million of Spero shares, the...https//www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/SPERO-THERAPEUTICS-INC-38533873/news/GSK-takes-stake-in-Spero-in-deal-for-experimental-UTI-treatment-41832202/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20220922

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

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Antibiotic resistance might be reduced if doctors instruct people to alternate between three different antibiotic medicines daily, tests with cells in the lab suggests

If scientists don't discover new antibiotics soon, the world will eventually return to the pre-antibiotic era when simple cuts could kill.

Antibiotics are vitally important medications, fighting life-threatening bacterial infections in humans and poorly pets alike, here vet charity PDSA is highlighting the risk of antibiotic resistance.

A genetic test gives results in half an hour to show if a person may become deaf in response to certain antibiotics, so can be used for babies with suspected sepsis who need treatment fast

In Malawi, women's wombs are removed to stop infection, a life-changing operation that doesn't always work.

Appili completes strategic reprioritization of programs to focus on ATI-1701, a biodefense tularemia vaccine candidate, ATI-1801, a topical antiparasitic product for the treatment of a disfiguring disease, and ATI-1501, a liquid oral formulation of the antibiotic metronidazole. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Appili Therapeutics Inc. (TSXAPLI; OTCQX APLIF) (the “Company” or “Appili”), a biopharmaceutical company focused […]