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10 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
During the WHO's 63rd Regional Committee Session for South-East Asia in Bangkok on Wednesday the WHO called for enhanced "efforts at the national and international level to preserve the efficacy of antimicrobial agents through the rational use of antibiotics," Indian Express reports (Thacker, 9/9)...
10 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
Inter Press Service reports on the ongoing talks at World Water Week over "the widespread devastation caused to humans by polluted water." The article offers statistics on the health problems faced by the "more than 900 million" people without access to safe drinking water and the "estimated 2.6 billion" without access to basic sanitation...
10 Sep 2010 at 7:00am
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday released its 2009 annual report (.pdf) highlighting some of the foundation's work over the last year, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports (Holtzman, 9/7). In a letter introducing the annual report, Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes "says eradicating polio" is one of his top priorities, the Associated Press reports...
10 Sep 2010 at 5:00am
A small research-based Norwegian company has developed a method to reduce the formation of the carcinogenic compound acrylamide during industrial production of potatoes and coffee. International food giants are paying attention...
10 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
Nearly one-third of Americans have experienced a Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) or have a friend or relative who contracted one, according to a new survey from Xenex Healthcare. HAIs (such as C. diff, MRSA, staph infections and pneumonia) are the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S...
10 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
New facilities opening tomorrow will help scientists in York develop drugs and vaccines to combat chronic diseases that devastate the lives of millions of people across the world...
10 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
One third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which leads to tuberculosis (TB), a leading cause of death world-wide. A new discovery, led by a team of researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, offers hope for new approaches to the prevention and treatment of TB...
10 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
Frog Skin May Provide Antimicrobial Peptides Effective Against Multidrug-Resistant Infections Antimicrobial peptides from the skin of frogs may protect against life-threatening, multidrug-resistant infections such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa say researchers from Italy. They detail their findings in the September 2010 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. P...
10 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
Treating intensive care patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia, with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to the infection, if results of a new preliminary study can be replicated in a larger study...
10 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
One of the antibiotics most commonly prescribed to treat adolescent acne can increase attention spans and communication and decrease anxiety in patients with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental impairment, according to a new survey study that is the first published on parents' reports of their children's responses to treatment with the medication...
10 Sep 2010 at 2:00am
Two opportunistic pathogens that were once thought to be very different have evolved some sexual reproduction and disease-causing habits that are not only similar but also suggest that in the microbial world sex and virulence are closely linked, according to a review published this week in the online journal mBio™...
9 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
For 70 years the world has mismanaged the common good of antibiotics. The result is a growing global burden of antibiotic resistance, threatening to take health care back to an era where ordinary infections might once again become fatal...
9 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
Genetically closely related skin bacteria that have developed resistance to several different antibiotics and that can cause intractable care-related infections are found and seem to be spreading within and between hospitals in Sweden. This is established by Micael Widerstrom in the doctoral dissertation he is defending at Umea University in Sweden...
9 Sep 2010 at 4:00am
Pathogenic bacteria have evolved a variety of mechanisms to avoid being killed by the immune systems of the humans and animals they invade. Among the most sophisticated is that practised by mycoplasmas, which regularly change their surface proteins to confuse the immune system...
9 Sep 2010 at 3:00am
The National Institutes of Health today announced it has awarded approximately $42 million to expand the scope of eight demonstration projects designed to link changes in the human microbiome to health and disease. The funds will also support investigators to develop innovative technologies to improve the identification and characterization of microbial communities of the human microbiome...
