Outbreak of skin infections sheds light on risk factors for bacterial resistance
...ections had received significantly more courses of antibiotics in the year before the outbreak than had the contr... Dr. Hennessy and colleagues concluded that use of antibiotics facilitated the genetic selection of methicillin-resistant strains of S. aureus expressing the Panto...Study finds few new antibiotics are in the pipeline
Despite a critical need for new antibiotics to treat drug-resistant infections and other infectious diseases, very few new antibiotics are being developed, according to a study in the May 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now av...Study shows lower than expected allergic-like events following second prescription of penicillin
...ected. "As one of the cheapest and most effective antibiotics available, it is essential for clinicians to know just how common allergic-like reactions are and when really to avoid re-prescription of penicillin," said Principal Investigator Andrea J. Apter, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine and allergist...Study evaluates various strategies for diagnosis and treatment of sore throat
...rent clinical guidelines on the appropriateness of antibiotics prescribed, the proportion of GAS sore throat case... a goal of reducing overall and unnecessary use of antibiotics for treatment of pharyngitis. However, empirical antibiotic treatment of adults with a Centor score ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for April 2004 (first issue)
...r hospitalization or administration of intravenous antibiotics at home. Of the study group, 3,322 patients had two or more exacerbations. The researchers found that small rise in two different sizes of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) was associated with an 8 percent and 21 percent increase, respectively, i...Study: Carbon dioxide may find new use in producing medical implants
...e range of plastics that release medicines -- from antibiotics to anti-tumor agents - into the body. The high-pressure, high-temperature CO2 is neither gas nor liquid, but is known as a "supercritical fluid," explained David Tomasko, associate professor of chemical engineering at Ohio State. Supercritical fluids...Antibiotics within 4 hours of arrival at hospital better for pneumonia patients
CHICAGO Giving older patients antibiotics within four hours of their arrival at a hospital f...ans older than 65 years. Timely administration of antibiotics to hospitalized patients with pneumonia has been associated with improved survival, the article stat...UCSF study: Pediatrician's judgment often better than clinical guidelines for treating infant fever
...ne with bacterial meningitis were not treated with antibiotics by the physicians on day one, but they were treated on the next day, so every child got proper treatment and did well." The researchers write in JAMA: "The findings suggest that if close follow-up care is attainable, the management of selected cases ...Risk of infection higher for piercing ear cartilage than lobe piercing
...to 19 years old. Most were initially treated with antibiotics ineffective against Pseudomonas. Four were hospitalized, four underwent incision and drainage surgeries (1 as an outpatient), and several were cosmetically deformed. Upper ear cartilage piercing was more likely to result in either confirmed or susp...Blood test could avoid inappropriate use of antibiotics for respiratory infections (pp 600)
...ould substantially reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics for common infections, conclude authors of a study... of bacterial infection. Such inappropriate use of antibiotics is contributing to the increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with serious implications for publi...Long-term use of antibiotics possibly linked with increased risk of breast cancer
...ns. CHICAGO Women who used increased amounts of antibiotics appear to have a greater risk of breast cancer, ac...rmine if the association between breast cancer and antibiotics is causal or if there are other underlying factors to be considered. "Breast cancer is the most freq...Rensselaer researcher receives $2.1 million grant to develop treatment for anthrax
... the Petri dish." Research has shown that existing antibiotics can successfully destroy anthrax bacteria, but not... toxin, which will then allow the immune system or antibiotics to eliminate anthrax bacteria. Kane's anthrax inhibitor research is part of Rensselaer's overall ef...New risk factors for retinal disorder identified
...acco, and to avoid unnecessary or excessive use of antibiotics and antihistamines." "Further," Dr. Koh said, "psychological stress, which could not be assessed in this study because of the study design, may contribute to some of the associations identified. Whether modulating the risk factors identified in this ...Ultrasound-guided liposomes boost imaging, target drug/gene therapy
...treated to also encapsulate certain drugs, such as antibiotics or thrombolytic (clot-busting) drugs or gene therapy, which, with the help of ultrasonic pulses, can be released at the site of a plaque or a clot or into living cells. This is caused by cavitation, the ability of the ultrasound to increase the energ...Study finds new antibiotic effective for diabetic foot infections
...most diabetic foot infections. Unlike other newer antibiotics for MRSA and VRE, linezolid can be given orally, as well as intravenously, making it suitable for outpatient use. "The approval of this drug for appropriately selected diabetic foot infections is important because it may reduce the need to hospitali...Major cause of painful gastroenteritis under study at MCG
...atment for those infected; some patients also take antibiotics to help shorten the duration of the illness, he said. But because animals and people are often treated with the same antibiotics, many strains of Campylobacter have become antibiotic-resistant, Dr. Thompson said. In fact, the same Consumer Reports su...Anthrax toxin inhibitor identified
...protease inhibitor drug, which in combination with antibiotics could be used to treat anthrax cases later in the disease, at a point when antibiotics alone are no longer effective. "Unlike most types of bacteria, Bacillus anthracis has the ability to...Antibiotic resistant bacteria frequently transmitted between intensive care patients
Bacteria with resistance to multiple antibiotics will become more common in intensive care units un...ibiotic-resistant bacteria. Resistance to multiple antibiotics was commonly seen. 21% of the bacterial strains were resistant to six, 34% to at least five, and 59%...Antibiotic use on swine farms increases efficiency, profits
...ovides an economically detailed look at the use of antibiotics for growth promotion following dramatic changes th...found that for average modern-day swine facilities antibiotics boost daily growth and reduce swine death rates during the growth-finisher stage of production. Swin......reatments. They looked at treatments that combined antibiotics with either a generic bismuth drug or a more expensive branded proton pump inhibitor (PPI). The more economical bismuth-based treatment was actually the most cost-effective. In other research on COX-2 drugs, in November The American Journal of ...