Key to Battling UTIs May Lie in'Good' Germs Within the Bladder
THURSDAY, July 14, 2022 -- As more and more superbugs become resistant to antibiotics, scientists are looking to use the good bacteria that live in people ' s bodies to fight back.
A new study reports on efforts to harness the power of " good guy " ... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
ICYMI: Increase in drug-resistant superbugs during COVID-19 highlights need for policy reforms to address antimicrobial resistance
A newreport released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows the number of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections rose dramatically during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of decline, these drug-resistant infections – often referred to as “superbugs” – caused a 15% increase in hospitalizations and deaths in 2020 alone. Antibiotic and antifungal medicines are critical to the everyday practice of medicine, yet many of our existing medicines may soon no longer be enough. (Source: The Catalyst)
Source: The Catalyst - July 14, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Research and Development Coronavirus Antimicrobial Resistance Source Type: news
Researchers discover how tuberculosis bacteria mutate to form antibiotic-resistant films
Tuberculosis, the second leading cause of death globally, is a highly infectious, hard to treat and difficult to contain disease that causes preventable deaths daily. A team of researchers supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - July 14, 2022 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
COVID Pandemic Slowed Progress Against Antibiotic-Resistant'Superbugs '
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 -- The COVID pandemic has eaten into the progress made against drug-resistant infections, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency reported that hospital-related infections and deaths grew... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - July 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Superbug infections, deaths rose at beginning of pandemic
U.S. health officials say the toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - July 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Pandemic fueled surge in superbug infections and deaths, CDC says
Sicker patients, antibiotic overuse, and staff and equipment shortages led to a 15 percent increase in superbug infections and deaths. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - July 12, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lena H. Sun Source Type: news
No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband's life
With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US -- intravenous injections of viruses called phages -- and convinced the medical system to save his life. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee explains an innovative discovery to fight against superbugs. For more Life Itself talks and related articles visit here. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 8, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
More Promising Phage News —Using Bacteria-Killing Viruses To Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
A recent international study led by Graham Hatfull, PhD, reported encouraging outcomes in 20 consecutive patients with life-threatening infections who were treated with phages. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - June 30, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Judy Stone, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Source Type: news
Widespread 'Superbug' in Pigs Can Jump to Humans
A strain of the superbug MRSA has emerged in pigs that is highly resistant to antibiotics and is a growing cause of human infections. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - June 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
In several patients, treatment of bacterial lung infections with viruses called phages eliminated the infection. (Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH))
Source: NIH Research Matters from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - June 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Super-gonorrhoea: Treatment-resistant superbug becoming 'major global threat' warns expert
SCIENTISTS have warned the antibiotic-resistant strain of super-gonorrhoea may pose a "major global threat" in the wake of an Austrian man catching the sexually transmitted disease. It comes as MPs have been urged to increase efforts to tackle the rise of superbugs. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Analyzing the Cost of Hospital Contact Isolation Practices: Implications for Nursing Administrator Practice, Research, and Policy
This study aimed to determine the weekly costs of contact precaution (CP) use with medically stable patients infected/colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and to estimate the annual financial and environmental costs of CP.
Background: The increasing use of disposables for infection control contributes to increasing hospital costs and amounts of solid waste at rates that are becoming unsustainable. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
An Interplay of Multiple Positive and Negative Factors Governs Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
The development of resistance to β-lactam antibiotics has made Staphylococcus aureus a clinical burden on a global scale. MRSA (methicillin-resistant S. aureus) is commonly known as a superbug. The ability of MRSA to proliferate in the presence of β-lactams is attributed to the acquisition of mecA, which encodes the alternative p enicillin binding protein, PBP2A, which is insensitive to the antibiotics. Most MRSA isolates exhibit low-level β-lactam resistance, whereby additional genetic adjustments are required to develop high-level resistance. Although several genetic factors that potentiate or are required for high-le...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Analyzing the Cost of Hospital Contact Isolation Practices: Implications for Nursing Administrator Practice, Research, and Policy
This study aimed to determine the weekly costs of contact precaution (CP) use with medically stable patients infected/colonized with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and to estimate the annual financial and environmental costs of CP. Background: The increasing use of disposables for infection control contributes to increasing hospital costs and amounts of solid waste at rates that are becoming unsustainable. Methods: A cost analysis was conducted using data from time/motion observations and previous waste audit study, along with hospital finance department values and US Department of Labor salary rates. R...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 17, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news