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New Antibiotic-infused Cement For Bones Created To Combat Infections

The medicinal cement precisely targets the infection site and delivers the antibiotic to the bone tissue through the bone cement.

Zenger

‘Irresponsible’: Alarm over Coffey’s ‘plans to let patients get antibiotics without seeing GP’

Reported plans come in bid to clear up long GP waiting lists

The Independent UK

'Taking antibiotics before going to the dentist could stop heart infections'

After a friend's brush with death, Dr Miriam Stoppard shares research from Sheffield University linking bad teeth to a potentially fatal heart condition and the preventative measures that could save lives

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Humble Potato Could Be Key To Beating Hospital Superbugs

Scientists say it contains a natural drug that destroys lethal bacteria.

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Why Covid-19 made this sexually transmitted superbug even worse

Gonorrhea is on the rise, but there are concrete steps that people can take to prevent it from getting worse.

Inverse

Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug

COVID-19 has rightfully dominated infectious disease news since 2020. However, that doesn’t mean other infectious diseases took a break. In fact, U.S. rates of infection by gonorrhea have risen during the pandemic.

The Conversation

Medical guidelines that embrace the humility of uncertainty could help doctors choose treatments with more research evidence behind them

Clinical guidelines greatly influence how doctors care for their patients. By providing recommendations on how to diagnose and treat particular situations, guidelines can help standardize the care patients receive. For instance, when a patient is suffering from an infection, a physician can consult the relevant guidelines to confirm that antibiotics…

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Why has my cold dragged on so long? And how do I know when it's morphed into something more serious?

Common colds are caused by viruses. There are no effective cures, and antibiotics do not work on viruses, so treatment is targeted at managing the symptoms until your immune system has cleared the cold.

The Conversation

'Untreatable' STD superbug that causes infertility and miscarriage is a 'silent spreader'

Scientists fear a 'silent spreader' STI called M. gen may "evolve into a superbug" due to the lack of research and testing - and the fact that the disease has proven resistant to antibiotics

Daily Mirror

Why Spero Therapeutics Is Trading Higher By Over 105%; Here Are 21 Stocks Moving Premarket

Gainers Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRO) rose 105.6% to $1.69 in pre-market trading. GSK and Spero Therapeutics announced exclusive license agreement for late-stage antibiotic asset, Tebipenem HBr.

Benzinga

The tide turns against superbugs

Humans were losing the war against antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Is that about to change?

Salon

Gutter to gut: How antimicrobial-resistant microbes journey from environment to humans

From sore throats to fevers and life-threatening infections, most people have periodically used antibiotics. Recent reports show that the global COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of antibiotics.

The Conversation

UTIs are still diagnosed using a 140-year-old method – here's why

If you’ve ever had a urinary tract infection (UTI) before, you know what a pain it can be. Not just because of the physical pains it causes, but because it can also be such a pain to go to the doctor, provide a urine sample, and wait for your results.

The Conversation

Poo transplants to be offered to hundreds of NHS patients with superbugs

The treatment targets infections that are hard to treat with traditional antibiotics

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Poo transplant to be offered to hundreds with superbug

C.diff infections can be tricky to treat with traditional antibiotics.

Benzinga

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We need to change how antibiotics target bugs if we want them to keep working

While much of our attention during the past few years has been focused on COVID, a more insidious and more dangerous pandemic has been spreading unabated. This pandemic concerns antimicrobial resistance, which is when bacteria evade the antibiotics we use to treat them. You’ve probably heard these bacteria called “superbugs”…

Daily Mirror

'Giving antibiotics through an inhaler can help fight bacterial resistance'

Replacing swallowed medicines with inhaled versions means the lowest possible effective dose can be administered and helps stop bugs becoming resistant to drugs, writes Dr Miriam Stoppard

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UK dentists should give antibiotics to patients at risk of heart infection – study

Nice guidelines advising against antibiotic use for those at risk of infective endocarditis should be reviewed, researchers say

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Doctor delayed antibiotics for dying mum

An obstetrician prioritised delivering a mum's stillborn baby over giving her antibiotics despite knowing there was a golden hour after diagnosing sepsis.

Salon

Nature's secret drug stockpile

Some scientists are looking for new drugs in nature rather than synthesizing them in the lab. Here's why

WEKU

Typhoid mutated to beat antibiotics. Science is learning how to beat those strains

The ancient disease is still a killer. And even though there are new drugs, there's a growing rate of antibiotic-resistance cases. Here's a look at the latest strategies to tame typhoid.

AFP

Antibiotic taken after sex drastically reduces STDs, study shows

Washington (AFP) - An antibiotic taken after sex without a condom can drastically reduce the rate of three bacterial STDs among high-risk groups, data from a clinical study showed Wednesday.

The Conversation

Nature is the world's original pharmacy – returning to medicine's roots could help fill drug discovery gaps

While humans evolved over a period of approximately 6 million years, breakthroughs in modern medicine as we know it today got going only in the 19th and 20th centuries. So how did humans successfully survive through millions of years of diseases and illnesses without modern drugs and treatments?

Daily Mirror

Feeding dogs raw meat could have deadly consequences for owners because of poo

According to new research published by Bristol University, feeding dogs raw meat could be bad for human health as it contains antibiotic-resistant bacteria that fuels superbugs

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