By Sandee LaMotte, CNNUpdated 9:56 AM EDT, Fri July 08, 2022 (CNN)In February 2016, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee was holding her dying husband’s hand, watching him lose an exhausting fight against a deadly superbug infection. After months of ups and downs, doctors had just told her that her husband, Tom Patterson, was too rackedwith...
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Most patients with appendicitis can be treated with antibiotics
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES HEALTH SCIENCES FINDINGS Outpatient antibiotic management of selected patients with appendicitis is safe, allowing many patients to avoid surgery and hospitalization, and should be considered as part of shared decision-making between doctor and patient. Of 726 participants who were randomized to receive antibiotics, 46% were discharged from the emergency...
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How bacteria adhere to cells: Basis for the development of a new class of antibiotics
GOETHE UNIVERSITY FRANKFURT FRANKFURT. The adhesion of bacteria to host cells is always the first and one of the decisive steps in the development of infectious diseases. The purpose of this adhesion by infectious pathogens is first to colonize the host organism (i.e., the human body), and then to trigger an infection, which in the...
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Antibiotics wreak havoc on athletic performance
by University of California – Riverside 10 days of antibiotics reduced the adult gut microbiome from millions of aerobic colony-forming units to a non-detectable amount. Credit: Monica McNamara/UCR New research demonstrates that by killing essential gut bacteria, antibiotics ravage athletes’ motivation and endurance. The UC Riverside-led mouse study suggests the microbiome is a big factor...
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Could the ‘glue’ bees use to seal hives boost power of antibiotics?
By MAX AITCHISON FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY A ‘glue’ that bees use to seal their hives and fight infection could hold the key to boosting the waning power of antibiotics, according to a pioneering study. ‘Bee glue’, or propolis, is a biscuity-brown, sticky substance that honey bees produce when building their hives. It is made...
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Scientists find link between antibiotics and colon cancer
by University of Aberdeen Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from the University of Aberdeen, NHS Grampian and Queen’s University Belfast have found that antibiotic use may increase the risk of developing colon cancer, potentially more so among younger people. The study of almost 40,000 people compared antibiotic use and lifestyle factors of those who had colorectal cancer and those...
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Antibiotics can be first-line therapy for uncomplicated appendicitis cases
DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER DURHAM, N.C. – With numerous recent studies demonstrating that antibiotics work as well as surgery for most uncomplicated appendicitis cases, the non-surgical approach can now be considered a routine option, according to a review article in JAMA. The finding — appearing Dec. 14 and led by Theodore Pappas, M.D., professor in the Department of...
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Researchers Show ‘Encrypted’ Peptides Could be Wellspring of Natural Antibiotics
While biologists and chemists race to develop new antibiotics to combat constantly mutating bacteria, predicted to lead to 10 million deaths by 2050, engineers are approaching the problem through a different lens: finding naturally occurring antibiotics in the human genome. The billions of base pairs in the genome are essentially one long string of code...
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Antibiotics for appendicitis: CODA study findings finalized
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/UW MEDICINE Antibiotics are now an accepted first-line treatment for most people with appendicitis, according to final results of the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) trial, and an updated treatment guideline for appendicitis from the American College of Surgeons. The CODA study findings were to be reported Monday, Oct....
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Researchers discover a way to increase the effectiveness of antibiotics
MONASH UNIVERSITY IMAGE: THIS IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC ENHANCES HUMAN NEUTROPHIL (BLUE NUCLEAR STAIN, HOESCHEST) PHAGOCYTOSIS OF S. AUREUS (RED, PHRODO STAIN). CREDIT: (C) DR JENNIFER PAYNE A multi-disciplinary project driven by EMBL Australia researchers at Monash University and Harvard University has found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant bacteria – also known as ‘superbugs....