Aquaculture: Not An Easy Answer To Overfishing
... Fish farming discharges nutrients, pesticides and antibiotics intocoastal waters. Exotic fish species are sometimes introduced outside their nativehabitat. The ocean's capacity to assimilate wastes, provide feed and stock, andmaintain viable fish populations is being challenged. The viability of tropical ...Cardiac Clinical Trial Studies Use of Antibiotic In Preventing Heart Attack
...nt AZACS study to determine thepotential value of antibiotics for heart attack prevention." "Chlamydia pneumonia, a common bacteria that causes respiratory infections, hasbeen identified in 30 to 40 percent of plaques where it may stimulate the whiteblood cells to trigger a heart attack," says Dr. Cercek. "If ...Researchers Find That Where There's Muck There's DNA Brass
... be examined to find material thatwill provide new antibiotics (which will help in the battle against antibioticresistant superbugs), enzymes, and other useful biotechnology products....New "Bacteria Bashers" Wipe Out Infection
It used to be that antibiotics could be trusted to rid the body of a host ofbacterial diseases. Today, however, emerging strains of antibiotic-resistantbacteria are speeding ahead, threatening to make existing drugs obsolete. Now, researchers at the WeizmannInstitute of Science h...Receptor May Increase Risk Of Urinary Tract Infections
...eat women prone to infection, whooften have totake antibiotics constantly. Those treatment regimens "basically turn someone who is otherwise normal intohavinga chronic disease," says co-author and University of Washington AssociateProfessor ofMedicine Ann E. Stapleton, M.D.. "They have to take something, often ...Cellular Target Of Leprosy, Deadly Viruses Found
...ay have clinicalimportance, said Campbell, because antibiotics can only treat the leprosyinfection, not the severe nerve damage that accompanies infection by M.leprae . "If we can dissect the region on DG that is involved in the bacterialbinding, we could possibly develop a drug, to be used along with antibiot...Gene Discovery Paves Way For Preventing Deadly Bacterial Shock
... with Tlr4 genetic defects. Doctors could then use antibiotics to preventthe acceleration of infection. "The knowledge that these mutations make mice highly susceptible to certainbacterial infections puts us in a position to identify comparable mutations inpeople to determine if they also are predisposed to thes...Antibody Revolution Targets STDs, Stomach Viruses, Common Cold
...really part of the problem. We, as consumers,abuse antibiotics and doctors over-prescribe antibiotics, so every time wedevelop one of these new antibodies for therapeutic use, we force a pathogeninto a unique strategy where it selects for resistant strains But if we starttalking about prevention rather than ther...Bacteria Becoming Increasingly Resistant To Antibiotics, But New Vaccines Are On The Horizon
...osporins such asceftriaxone, the most widely used antibiotics currently available to treatbacterial infections, ...e, the pneumococcal isolates that are resistant to antibiotics have been increasing infrequency -- dramatically. Not only the frequency is increasing but the deg...H Pylori Screening To Reduce The Risk Of Gastric Cancer
...two-week regimen consisting of a combinationof two antibiotics and a medication that decreases acid product in the stomach. This treatment plan is successful more than 90 percent of the time inpermanently eliminating H pylori infection. "Population based screening of asymptomatic individuals has the potential to......before symptoms begin, patients canbe treated with antibiotics to reduce the chances that the disease will spreadand prevent serious complications like Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). Thelong term effects of PID, including infertility and ectopic or tubalpregnancies, can be painful, costly and life-threatenin...New Drug Shown Effective Against Vancomycin-Resistant Bacteria
...es that are chemically unrelated to currently used antibiotics yethave enhanced activity against gram-positive bacteria, including enterococcithat are resistant to vancomycin, a potent antibiotic. Because the bacteria Enterococcus faecium is highly resistant tovancomycin as well as other antibiotics, there are f...At Last There's A Way To Fight The Dreaded E.coli
...encouraging, although Japanese recipients received antibiotics as well. Even so,only 1 per cent of patients recei...d HUS comparedwith a usual rate of 15 per cent for antibiotics alone....UB Researchers Identify Specific Oral Bacteria Most Likely To Increase Risk Of Heart Disease
...med, it may be possible to target the bacteriawith antibiotics or vaccines and lower the risk of heart attack in persons withperiodontal disease, according to Robert J. Genco, D.D.S., Ph.D., chiefinvestigator on this and earlier studies on the connection between oral bacteriaand heart disease. The findings are c...Glowing Bacteria: DuPont And UD Scientists Detect Poultry Toxin And Other Environmental Contaminants
...ponse to protein damage,acidification, exposure to antibiotics and other forms of stress." So far, the DuPont/UD research team has subjected a panel of six E. colibiosensor strains to nine chemicals. Some of the chemicals, such as theherbicide, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2-4D), can be found in theenvironmen...Maggots Could Help Address Problems Of Antibiotic Resistance
...ast resort, when conventional treatments including antibiotics have failed. They conclude that using maggots earlier in the management of infection may often obviate the need for antibiotics. Contact: Dr Steve Thomas, Director, Biosurgical Research Unit, Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend, WalesEmail: steve@...Researchers Develop First Way To Immunize Against A Deadly Bacterium
...icrobes that have become increasingly resistant to antibiotics and continue tokill hundreds of thousands of hospital patients every year. The discovery, based on experiments with laboratory mice, provides immunizationagainst the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium, suggesting a fresh alternative toantibiotics in th...SFU Spin-Off Company To Research Promising Antibacterial Agents
...professor who holds some 40 patents in thefield of antibiotics research, will serve as Chief Scientific Officer of the newcompany, which he has co-founded with Hugh MacNaught of WTSIF, who will hold theposition of president and CEO. "WTSIF reviews about 250 technologies a year and invests in about five ofthem," ......ainst subsequent infections." Vaccines and antibiotics developed out of this discovery are expected topro...nfections. While application to human vaccinesand antibiotics may be down the road a few years, Mahan sees significant impacton human health happening very soon -...