Study finds new antibiotic effective for diabetic foot infections
...--both in hospitals and communities. For years the antibiotic vancomycin had been a last line of defense against infections caused by MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," but now vancomycin-resistant infections have been reported. Because of the growing problem of MRSA and vancomycin-resistant ente...Call for increase in flu vaccination among young children
...cause excess hospitalisations, medical visits, and antibiotic prescriptions even in healthy children, especially those under 2 years. Furthermore, influenza in otherwise healthy children may have substantial socioeconomic consequences for the children and their household contacts. Nicola Principi and Susanna E......" pill and telling him or her it's a painkiller or antibiotic is "ethically suspect, if not blatantly unethical." "Most patients, given a capsule or an injection and being led to think that the substance was a powerful painkiller or antibiotic, would feel tricked if they later discovered that it was really a su...Long-term use of antibiotics possibly linked with increased risk of breast cancer
... have breast cancer in the control group. Data on antibiotic use were obtained from the GHC pharmacy database. ...archers looked at the cumulative number of days of antibiotic use and the total number of antibiotic prescriptions for each study participant. "We found that incr...Blood test could avoid inappropriate use of antibiotics for respiratory infections (pp 600)
... to identify procalcitonin concentrations to guide antibiotic treatment among patients with lower respiratory-tr...nts: "Procalcitonin guidance substantially reduced antibiotic use in lower respiratory tract infections. Withholding antimicrobial treatment did not compromise ou...Antibiotic provides promise in treatment of spinal cord injuries
...Boston (CHB) have found that a commonly prescribed antibiotic could be used to help prevent paralysis and other long-term functional deficits associated with a partial spinal cord injury (SCI). Researchers in the field have known that a significant proportion of paralysis and long-term functional disorders asso...Linezolid is superior treatment for drug-resistant pneumonia
...become resistant to medicine's standard arsenal of antibiotic treatments. MRSA is one of the more common and lethal forms of drug-resistant pneumonia. One antibiotic still effective in killing bacteria is vancomycin, which has been used for the past decade to treat ...Tuberculosis strains stay close to home, say Stanford researchers
...teria can escape a host's immune system or develop antibiotic resistance. The team took its analysis a step further in a second paper, which appears in the same edition of the journal. They found that people from different regions of the world carry different strains of the tuberculosis bacteria, pointing out t...Antibiotics within 4 hours of arrival at hospital better for pneumonia patients
...urvival, the article states. Guidelines recommend antibiotic treatment within eight hours of arrival at a hospi...ny treatment prior to their arrival at a hospital, antibiotic administration within four hours of arrival was associated with reduced death in the hospital (6.8 p...Study evaluates various strategies for diagnosis and treatment of sore throat
...ryngitis) vary in their recommendations concerning antibiotic treatment and the need for laboratory confirmation... of adults presenting with sore throat received an antibiotic prescription. Warren McIsaac, M.D., M.Sc., of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, and colleague...Study shows lower than expected allergic-like events following second prescription of penicillin
...as penicillin-allergic who can safely receive that antibiotic in time of need and when the alternatives are not as effective. More research is needed to understand how to identify these patients in advance....Study finds few new antibiotics are in the pipeline
...uture, unless new incentives are developed to spur antibiotic R&D. "This may require remedies similar to approaches that have been taken in the arena of anti-cancer drugs and bioterrorism," said John E. Edwards, Jr., MD, also of Harbor-UCLA. Dr. Edwards serves on a task force of the Infectious Diseases Society ...Outbreak of skin infections sheds light on risk factors for bacterial resistance
...ue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases: previous antibiotic use and a genetic predisposition. S. aureus is a common bacterium found on human nasal mucous membranes and skin, and strains that are resistant to methicillin can cause disease. Until recently drug-resistant strains were considered to be acquired al...Electronic nose device proves effective for diagnosing pneumonia and sinusitis
...can also help physicians select the most effective antibiotic for treatment. "The results confirm that exhaled breath can be analyzed for pneumonia and sinusitis using a commercially available e-nose device," said lead investigator for the sinusitis study and co-investigator for the pneumonia studies, Erica...Zinc therapy accelerates recovery from pneumonia
... "Our study shows that adding zinc to the standard antibiotic treatment significantly reduces the recovery time ...zinc were also less likely to need a change in the antibiotic being used. This could have significant implications for reducing antibiotic-resistant infections by...Compound in salsa may fight food poisoning
...was twice as potent as the commonly used medicinal antibiotic gentamicin at killing Salmonella , a frequent and...dds. In addition to dodecenal, about a dozen other antibiotic compounds were isolated from fresh cilantro that show some activity against a variety of harmful bac...July/August 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...der- and over-diagnosis, and result in unnecessary antibiotic treatment. They recommend expanded education for clinicians and patients focusing on the indications for Lyme disease testing, particularly that the absence of symptoms with or without a known or suspected recent tick bite obviates the need for test...Switch of a gene turns cancer cells healthy in mice, Stanford scientists find
...nd turning it off is as simple as feeding mice the antibiotic doxycycline. The mice remained cancer-free as long as they maintained their diet of the antibiotic. But as soon as Felsher withheld the doxycycline, the gene was back on; Myc protein accumulated in the liver cells, and theanimals developed aggr...Prescriptions for antibiotics to prevent anthrax uncommon after the 2001 anthrax attacks
...rs and others were given 3.75 million prophylactic antibiotic pills through official dispensing campaigns betwee... as a whole, our results do not suggest widespread antibiotic abuse in the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attacks, as measured by patient requests and physician ...Patients with chronic sinus do not necessarily develop antibiotic resistance
...ients with CRS develop an increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance over time. Over a seven-year period, the researchers studied data on microbiological sinus culture results (224 culture results, average 2.5 cultures per patient) from 90 adult patients with CRS. The average time between cultures for pa...