The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

A Last Resort Antibiotic Is the Prime Suspect After a Muscle Marker Hit 128 Times Normal

Her myoglobin reached 128 times the upper limit of normal, while creatine kinase, the enzyme doctors normally watch for this, barely moved.

Medical Daily · Aug 25

‘Routine’ medical treatments are not risk free. Patients should ask questions before consenting

The distinction has become blurred between something being medically available and actually being medically useful

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24

Why the Crocodile's Powerful Immune System Could Help Scientists Fight Antibiotic Resistance

An animal that should not survive its own habitatCrocodiles fight constantly. They lose limbs. They tear open each other's hides in territorial battles fought in water thick with fecal matter, rotting carcasses, and every pathogen a tropical swamp can produce. Their wounds almost never get infected. That observation, sitting in…

Times Life · Aug 22

Hindu Cosmology's Cyclical Time Is More Honest About Human Nature Than Modern Progress

The lie inside the arrowProgress is a direction. That's the whole claim. History moves forward, civilisations improve, suffering decreases, and the arc bends, you know the rest. It's a story so embedded in modern life that questioning it feels like pessimism, or worse, ingratitude. But the story has a structural…

Times Life · Aug 19

A Fever After Fibroid Treatment Is Usually Harmless, Unless the Fibroid Has Turned into an Abscess

Fever after fibroid embolization is usually expected. In rare cases, it signals an infected fibroid that antibiotics alone cannot clear.

Medical Daily · Aug 18

The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology

The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the fight against antibiotic resistance. But it also raised urgent concerns about regulation.

The Conversation · Aug 18

A Bacterium Known for Contaminating Water Systems Turned Up Inside a Healthy 24 Year Old's Pancreas

Doctors drained pus from a young man's pancreatic cysts and grew Burkholderia cenocepacia, an organism rarely seen outside cystic fibrosis clinics.

Medical Daily · Aug 17

One in Ten Pneumonia Patients Tested at a Phoenix Hospital Had Valley Fever, and a Quarter Were Never Tested

Mayo Clinic Phoenix found that 10 percent of tested pneumonia patients had Valley fever, while 24 percent of admitted patients were never tested.

Medical Daily · Aug 17

5 Signs Your Red Eyes Could Be Eye Flu

The redness, tearing and itching of the eyes can be quite scary. The inflammation of the conjunctiva known as conjunctivitis or eye flu is caused by the swelling of the conjunctiva, a transparent membrane covering the outer white layer of the eye and inner eyelids. While the disease is usually…

MyLifeXP · Aug 17

Fish Intelligence and Pain Research Is Quietly Rewriting the Ethics of What We Eat

Fish Are Not What We AssumedThe tusk fish picks up a clam, swims to a rock, and smashes it open, repeatedly, deliberately, with the same stone it has used before. This is tool use. It was filmed in the wild, published in the journal Coral Reefs in 2011, and it…

Times Life · Aug 16