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Better education can address international issue of antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is an international reality whose solution includes better educating physicians about using bacteria-fighting tools, says an infectious disease physician."The big problem is the overuse of antibiotics in hospitals and communities because not only can they lead to side effects like rashes and colon damage, one of those side effects is development of multidrug-resistant organisms," said Dr. Josѐ A. Vazquez, Chief of the Section of Infectious Diseases at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Medical News Today: Peptide gel harnesses nature's building blocks to fight superbug infections
Dr. Garry Laverty, from Queen's University Belfast in Ireland, and colleagues created a peptide gel that could revolutionize superbug infection treatment. He details their results.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Innovation Source Type: news

Medical News Today: Specific UV light kills MRSA without damaging human tissue
UV light effectively kills bacteria, but it also damages the skin and eyes. Researchers find a specific wavelength that kills MRSA but not healthy tissue.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical Innovation Source Type: news

Medical News Today: Antibiotic resistance: 8,000 new drug combinations are effective
A new study shows that, contrary to general belief in the medical community, a combination of four or more antibiotics can effectively kill bacteria.
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by online pharmacies 'reckless'
Conclusion Worryingly, most of the online pharmacies had no evidence of the registration required by current UK and European legislation. This could be because some of the operators were based outside Europe – but regardless of where they are based, they are still subject to UK legislation if selling to the UK public. The study raises concerns about the effectiveness of current UK legislation and the regulation of companies selling antibiotics over the internet. This research does have some limitations, however: Google and Yahoo searches are not identical when different browsers are used or when searches are per...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Medical practice Source Type: news

Antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella tracked from farm to fork
Continuing research on Salmonella may enable researchers to identify and track strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria as they evolve and spread, according to researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. Tracing the transmission of individual strains from agricultural environments to humans through the food system is difficult because of the rapid evolution of resistance patterns in these bacteria. Resistance patterns change so quickly that, until now, it has been impossible to determine where some highly resistant strains are coming from...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 2, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Harnessing 'brute force' could be key to creating new antibiotics
Conclusions This laboratory study furthers understanding of the mechanisms by which antibacterial drugs target and destroy bacteria. The answer seems to lie in how effectively the drug can bind to target molecules on the bacterial surface membrane. When the force of this binding exerts sufficient mechanical strain on the cell surface, then the bacteria breaks apart and is destroyed. It shows that the strongest antibacterials that we have, such as vancomycin, are currently not infallible. That we could reach a point where we have bacterial infections that not even the strongest antibiotics are able to fight is a major pu...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Medical practice Source Type: news

Hunt For New Antibiotics Turns To Deep Sea Trenches
Around the world, as disease-causing bugs become more and more resistant to current effective antibiotics, doctors fear there will be no means to treat seriously ill patients in the future. Now scientists have widened the search for new drugs to include some of the deepest and coldest places on the planet. "There hasn't been a completely new antibiotic registered since 2003," Marcel Jaspars, professor of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, says in a statement to the press released on Thursday...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - February 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Lab Reproduction Of A Marine Compound With Antibiotic Properties
Bacterial resistance to drugs leads pharmaceutical labs to be in constant search for new antibiotics to treat the same diseases. For the last thirty years, the sea bottom has yielded a wealth of substances with properties of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Isolated from a marine microorganism off the coast of Alicante by the company BioMar, baringolin shows promising antibiotic activity at a very low concentration...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Antibiotic use in farm animals 'threatens human health'
"Farmers need to dramatically cut the amount of antibiotics used in agriculture, because of the threat to human health, a report says," according to BBC News. The concern is agricultural antibiotic use is driving up levels of antibiotic resistance, leading to new "superbugs". The report looked at resistance to antimicrobial drugs, which includes antibiotics as well as antifungal and antiparasitical drugs. Resistance to these drugs is collectively known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The report is part of an ongoing review of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) commissioned by the British Prime Minis...
Source: NHS News Feed - December 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Medication QA articles Source Type: news

Hospital Over-Use Of Antibiotics Can Be Reduced By Targeting Prescribers
Giving prescribers access to education and advice or imposing restrictions on use can curb overuse or inappropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals, according to a new Cochrane systematic review. This is important because unnecessary use of these life-saving drugs is a key source of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Some infections are no longer treatable due to bacterial resistance. Compared to infections caused by treatable bacteria, those caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria lead to more deaths, longer hospital stays and increased healthcare costs...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news

Common bacteria could help prevent food allergies
ConclusionThis research examined how normal populations of gut bacteria influence mouse susceptibility to peanut allergens. The findings suggest the Clostridia group of bacteria may have a particular role in altering the immune defenses of the gut lining and preventing some of the food allergen entering the bloodstream. The findings inform the theory that our increasingly sterile environments and increased use of antibiotics could lead to a reduction in our normal gut bacteria, which could possibly lead to people developing a sensitivity to allergens.But these findings are in the very early stages. So far, only mice have b...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 26, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Medical practice Source Type: news

The effectiveness of education of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection prevention and control (IPC) with directive discourse to improve handwashing compliance
The incidence rate of microbial exposure remains high among nurses. Paramedics play a vital role in transmitting the nosocomial infection in the hospital. This research aims to analyze the education effectivity of MRSA IPC with directive discourse to improve handwashing compliance among nurses. This is quasi-experimental research using a pretest –posttest non-control design and has obtained an ethical approval certificate issued by the hospital ethical committee. A research subject is a group of 25 nurses. The data test uses the Wilcoxon test to determine the measuring result of handwashing compliance before and after th...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - November 18, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Stethoscopes could spread hospital infections
Conclusion This study demonstrates that after a patient examination with sterile hands and stethoscope, the part of a doctor's hands most highly contaminated with bacteria was the fingertips, followed by the diaphragm of the stethoscope. This part of the stethoscope was more contaminated than other regions of the hand, including the skin around the base of the thumb and little finger, or the back of the hand. The pattern was similar when looking at MRSA and total bacterial count in general. It must be acknowledged that this study was small, involving the examination of only 71 patients by just three doctors at a single S...
Source: NHS News Feed - February 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medical practice Source Type: news

Bacteria-eating viruses found that fight C. diff 'superbugs'
A potential new victory in the war against antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" lies in the discovery of specific viruses that eat bacteria - called bacteriophages. Researchers in the UK have isolated certain phages, which have been shown to target the infectious hospital bug Clostridium difficile. C. diff, as the superbug is known, is responsible for 250,000 infections in the US each year and results in 14,000 deaths, the researchers say. Causing excess medical costs of $1 billion each year, finding a solution to this problem is one of both medical and economic importance. Dr...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news