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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
UNIVERSITY OF BONN IMAGE: LOOK AT A CULTIVATION PLATE WITH THE RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAIN. CREDIT: PHOTO: VOLKER LANNERT/UNIVERSITY OF BONN The skin bacterium Staphylococcus aureus often develops antibiotic resistance. It can then cause infections that are difficult to treat. Researchers at the University of Bonn have uncovered an ingenious way in which a certain...
Fever, headache, confusion, seizures, amputations or death. Meningitis is a very serious brain infection that can affect the body in many ways and needs to be treated within 24 hours of contracting the disease. The World Health Organization estimates that there are close to three million cases per year. Between the four main causes of...
by South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Credit: Shutterstock A team of researchers from SAHMRI and Flinders University has found a link between the type of microbiome that repopulates the gut following antibiotics and shortened lifespan in mice. The study recently published in Cell Reports, is the first of its kind to examine the long-term effects of exposing...
by KU Leuven Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some antibiotics appear to be effective against a form of skin cancer known as melanoma. Researchers at KU Leuven, Belgium, examined the effect of these antibiotics on patient-derived tumors in mice. Their findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Researchers from KU Leuven may have found a new weapon in the...
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IMAGE: LEAD AUTHOR MARTIN BLASER, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE AT RUTGERS CREDIT: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Antibiotic exposure early in life could alter human brain development in areas responsible for cognitive and emotional functions, according to a Rutgers researcher. The laboratory study, published in the journal iScience, suggests that penicillin changes...
