Penn researchers identify new cost-effective antibiotic treatment which shortens patient stays
...n used to treat infections resistant to most other antibiotics that can extend patients length of stay. The drug is the first in a new class of antibiotics that attack bacteria in a way unlike existing therapies. In a study published today, the researchers......ypes of the bacteria. According to Dr. Horwith, antibiotics kill bacteria by damaging the bacteria cell wall, ...tients against these VISA organisms, where current antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. On September 19, 2000, in Toronto, Canada, the clinical investiga...Australian chemists present new research findings at Pacifichem 2000
...ting to attack this problem by searching for novel antibiotics in unusual sources: cultured fungi derived from animal dung and insects. (ORGN 1343, 9 a.m., Monday, Dec. 18) More than 8,000 research papers will be presented during this year's International Chemical Congress, which is sponsored jointly by the ACS,...HIV research takes promising new direction
...rnia, San Diego. Chemically modified from existing antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, the new compounds target...targets for anti-HIV drug design." Aminoglycoside antibiotics have not been used to treat HIV because of their side effects and inefficiency in preventing the spr...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
...ed infection will reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and thus may decrease the chance that bacteria will develop antibiotic resistance." Catheters are a common feature of hospital care, used by about four million hospital patients a year some time during their stay. Inserted into the urethra, they co......eria are a frequent cause of ear infections. Most antibiotics require 10 days of multi-dose treatment. Children may not always finish the medication, a situation that can lead to possible treatment failure and may lead to the development of resistance to that medication. Zithromax® (azithromycin for ora...Drugs made from polymers, the stuff of plastics
... Other possibilities include polymer versions of antibiotics that release medication slowly over time and surgical sutures that deliver anti-inflammatory drugs even as they dissolve....War on bacteria could leave drug-resistant strains unchecked
...have learned to evade some or all of the 100 or so antibiotics developed in the last 60 years to fight them, deat...e organisms with strains that are resistant to all antibiotics that are available, including the drug vancomycin, which has been considered to be the last line of ...AAPS PharmSci article says data mining via internet key to identifying human genes
...be found on the Internet. The authors explain that antibiotics have proven highly effective in treating infectious diseases. Whereas some antibiotics need to be injected, many can be taken orally. To be absorbed into the body, the main oral antibioti...New approach to antibiotic resistance
Researchers create a new type of antibiotics effective against many bacteria Like weeds in a ...esearchers focused on aminoglycosides, a family of antibiotics that includes drugs such as neomycin, used in common ointments like Neosporin™. This class of an...Tuberculosis Foundation selects Core Research Scientists
...e tuberculosis disease within their lifetime. The antibiotics and the vaccine currently used to treat and prevent this disease are antiquated and have limited effectiveness. The Core Scientists Program is the first step in the Foundation's TBVC, an international program designed to coordinate and facilitate th...Chemists take new approach to fighting resistance
... "Self-destructive" Antibiotic "A feature of antibiotics is that they are usually not metabolized in the bo...nment where they end up. The lingering presence of antibiotics has provided increased opportunities for bacteria to develop resistance to them in these environment......sistantstrains of bacteria. Unlike antiseptics and antibiotics there is no impairment of the healing processthrough adverse effects on wound tissues. Honey researchers feel that the therapeutic potential of honey is grossly underutilized. It iswidely available in most communities and although the mechanism of ...Antibiotic prescribing in local communities is linked to localised resistance
...the correlation between the prescribing of certain antibiotics and resistance to those same antibiotics was often significant. They say that this is the first survey to suggest such geographically locali...Changing approaches to treating gum disease
...craping and planing withshort-term use of systemic antibiotics such as metronidazole or doxycycline,which are eff...een the teeth and gums. As helpful as they may be, antibiotics are not a "magic bullet" to be used oneveryone with gum disease, Loesche warns. They should be used...Even in an era of HAART Drugs, HIV patients are vulnerable to opportunistic infections
...IV patients developed high-level resistance to the antibiotics withinsix weeks of starting prophylaxis. According to lead investigator Judith Aberg, MD, the study results have keyimplications for determining optimum HIV treatment during the current HAARTera. Respiratory infections are the leading cause of death...Mitral valve repair at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center gets Los Angeles dentist on the road to recovery
...ntist and MVP patient, he knew that a dose of oral antibiotics was often recommended during dental work to guard against infection. Beyond that, his diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse was seldom given a second thought. That uncomplicated scenario changed quite dramatically two years ago. "My endurance just wasn'...A leading cause of preventable blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
...achoma. "We have known for decades that we had the antibiotics to successfully treatthis disease when cases devel...Tanzania. Previous studies have shown that topical antibiotics reduced the severity ofdisease and infection levels for the short-term, but they did not controltrac...A leading cause of blindness may be controlled by simple course of oral antibiotic
...orld. "We have known for decades that we had the antibiotics to successfully treatthis disease when cases devel...multiple doses of the ointment. Treatment with antibiotics is one of several steps in a comprehensive trachomacontrol strategy called SAFE: Surgery for advance...Study to test whether antibiotics can reduce heart disease risk
...dicalCenter and 25 other centers will test whether antibiotics can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. ...tional study director. "The idea of giving antibiotics to treat a chronic disease like coronaryartery disease is not as far-fetched an idea as it once was,...