Transplanting Gut Microbes to Treat DiseaseGoogle Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

Eating more yogurt, for instance, hasn't helped people with C. difficile infections, says Rob Knight, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ...
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Oral Antibiotics Stave Off Infections, Ileus After ColectomyGoogle Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

The incidence of C. difficile colitis was similar between the groups (1.3% vs. 1.8%; P=0.58), alleviating fears that oral antibiotics may increase a ...
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Piglets get rid of Clostridium difficile bacteriaGoogle Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

As piglets mature, they get rid of Clostridium difficile bacteria that can be harmful to humans. A study team of five headed by Dr. Scott Weese at Ontario ...
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Is C. Diff The New 'Superbug'? U.Va. Expert Is Available For InterviewsGoogle Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

It is estimated that approximately 500000 infections caused by Clostridium difficile occur in hospitals in the United States each year. ...
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CDC to Enhance Colon Infection SurveillanceGoogle Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

Steady increases in the rate and severity of Clostridium difficile infection, a health care-acquired infection affecting the colon, indicate a clear need to ...
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Progenics Pharmaceuticals To Present Preclinical Study Of Novel Monoclonal ...Google Alerts - Clostridium Difficile

Clostridium difficile ( C. difficile) is an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium that represents the leading cause of hospital-acquired diarrhea and ...
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Antibacterial Peptide Could Aid Soldiers' Burn Wound InfectionsGoogle Alerts - acinetobacter

Otvos was quoted as saying that 40 percent of gowns and gloves in military hospitals are infected with Acinetobacter baumannii, and half of the soldiers ...
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Antibiotic helped fight wound infections common in war zoneGoogle Alerts - acinetobacter

... and clear infections in mice infected with Acinetobacter baumannii, the most common systemic infection in soldiers who have burns or blast wounds. ...
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Antibiotic helped fight common wound infectionGoogle Alerts - acinetobacter

They tested this in mice with burn wounds infected with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria taken from a Canadian soldier who had returned from Afghanistan. ...
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Antibacterial peptide could aid in treating soldiers' burn wound infectionsGoogle Alerts - acinetobacter

Otvos said that 40 percent of gowns and gloves in military hospitals are infected with Acinetobacter baumannii, and half of the soldiers returning from Iraq ...
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5 reasons to keep filthy flies off foodGoogle Alerts - acinetobacter

... linked to house flies: Acinetobacter baumanni, Bacillus pumilus, Cronobacter sakazakii, Methylobacterium persicinum and Staphylococcus sciuri. ...
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Fungus-Farming Ants Using Multiple Antibiotics As Weed Killers To Maintain Their Fungus Gardens May Teach Us How To Slow Drug Resistant Bacteria

Research led by Dr Matt Hutchings and published in the journal BMC Biology shows that ants use the antibiotics to inhibit the growth of unwanted fungi and bacteria in their fungus cultures which they use to feed their larvae and queen. These antibiotics are produced by actinomycete bacteria that live on the ants in a mutual symbiosis...

The Physical Effects Of Evolution Measured At Molecular Scale

A unique experiment at Rice University that forces bacteria into a head-to-head competition for evolutionary dominance has yielded new insights about the way Darwinian selection plays out at the molecular level. An exacting new analysis of the experiment has revealed precisely how specific genetic mutations impart a physical edge in the competition for survival...

'Kiss Of Death' For Antibiotic-Resistant Germs With The Help Of Frog Skin

Kissing a frog won't turn it into a prince - except in fairy tales - but frogs may be hopping toward a real-world transformation into princely allies in humanity's battle with antibiotic-resistant infections that threaten millions of people worldwide. Scientists today reported that frog skin contains natural substances that could be the basis for a powerful new genre of antibiotics...

Infected Drip Claims Third Baby's Life In German Hospital, Reigniting Germany's Hospitals Hygiene Debate

Three babies have died at Mainz University Hospital, Germany, after receiving infusions (a drip) tainted with bacteria. The third baby to die had been born at 24 weeks and was very weak, said doctors at the hospital. Two other babies died on Saturday, 21st August, 2010. All three babies had received the same nutrient infusion solution (via a drip)...

WHO Calls On Countries To Prevent, Control Spread Of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Amid the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the WHO on Friday urged countries to take greater action to limit the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, CIDRAP News reports...

Six New Biomedical Technologies Offered For Licensing By Montana State University

Researchers at Montana State University have developed six new biomedical technologies that could have applications for treating antibiotic resistant infections, fungal infections and viral infections; boosting humans' innate immunity and improving scientists' ability to study such compounds. The technologies are available for licensing to interested companies and entrepreneurs...

MRSA Policies Differ Among Hospitals

Hospitals vary in how they detect and treat drug-resistant staph infections, but most follow national guideline recommendations, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Researchers sent a 61-item questionnaire to pharmacy directors at 263 acute-care hospitals in the U.S...

Coating That Safely Kills MRSA On Contact

Building on an enzyme found in nature, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a nanoscale coating for surgical equipment, hospital walls, and other surfaces which safely eradicates methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), the bacteria responsible for antibiotic resistant infections. "We're building on nature," said Jonathan S. Dordick, the Howard P...

Report Cards, Disclosures Readied Or Deleted On Hospital Infections In Some States

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "After several years of delay, Illinois has begun posting hospital infection data on its 'hospital report card' website, including facilities in the greater St. Louis area. State officials say the website - www.healthcarereportcard.illinois.gov - will benefit not only the consumer but also the health care industry. ...

Studies Pinpoint Key Targets For MRSA Vaccine

Two recent studies provide evidence for a new approach to vaccines to prevent infections caused by drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- better known as MRSA - the leading cause of skin and soft tissue, bloodstream and lung infections in the United States. One demonstrates a way to counteract the bacteria's knack for evading the immune system...

American Lung Association Supports Individuals Dealing With Lung Disease Through Online Caregiving Coordination Service

The American Lung Association is offering a free-of-charge, online caregiving coordination service called "My Fighting for Air Community" to support individuals affected by acute and chronic lung diseases...

Comment On New Severe Asthma Research

A study in the US has found a protein that could be a driver of severe asthma. Dr Elaine Vickers, Research Relations Manager at Asthma UK comments: 'Although this research is in its early stages and focuses solely on mouse models, this discovery provides vital new information on the immune system's role in severe asthma, that could one day lead to the creation of new treatments...

EACAAI, Excellence In Clinical Education, Communication And Patient Care

Be among the first to hear the latest research from the world's leading allergists presented at the 2010 annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), Nov. 11-16, in Phoenix...

Stromedix Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation For STX-100 For The Treatment Of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Stromedix, Inc., a biotechnology company focused on innovative therapies for fibrosis and fibrotic organ failure, announced that its lead clinical candidate STX-100 has been granted orphan drug status by the U.S...

Police Did Not Help Girl With Asthma Who Subsequently Died

Carmen Delgado was driving her asthma-suffering daughter Briana to hospital and crashed her car into another vehicle; police officer Alfonso Mendez told the mother he did not know CPR and could not help - leaving the girl to die. The New York Police Department, whose officers are ALL trained in CPR, has suspended Mendez without pay. The girl's funeral is scheduled for today...

Our Lungs Are 'Innately Prone' To Silicosis And Related Diseases According To New Discovery

For the nearly 2 million U.S. workers exposed to silica dust each year, a new discovery may help prevent or treat the development of chronic lung diseases related to this exposure...

Glenmark Announces The Discovery Of A Novel Chemical Entity 'GRC 17536', A TRPA1 Receptor Antagonist, A Potential First-in-Class Molecule Globally

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals announced the discovery of a Novel Chemical Entity(NCE) 'GRC 17536'. The new NCE program is targeting TRPA1 receptor antagonists for pain and respiratory disorders...

El Camino Hospital Offers Revolutionary New Asthma Treatment

El Camino Hospital has been selected as one of the first hospitals in Northern California to offer bronchial thermoplasty , a new medical treatment for the most severe cases of asthma...

Study Points To Genetic Driver Of Severe Asthma

Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology...

Concern About Environmental Impact Of e-Waste Recycling

Much of the world's electronic waste is being shipped to China for recycling and the cottage industry that has sprung up there to recover usable materials from computers, cell phones, televisions and other goods may be creating significant health and environmental hazards...

Two-Hour Test For TB Reported To Be Clinically Effective

Research assessing the effectiveness of a new diagnostic test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB) is featured in the Sept. 1 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine...

New England Journal Of Medicine Study Shows New Molecular TB Test Could Offer Rapid And Effective Diagnosis In Developing Countries

A study(1) published in The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a new molecular tuberculosis (TB) test, Xpert® MTB/RIF, provides highly sensitive detection of tuberculosis and drug resistance in low resource settings more easily and in significantly less time than any current, widely used diagnostic...

Health Leaders Gather To Discuss WHO's Work In Africa

Health leaders from 46 African WHO member states gathered in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Monday for the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO, Agencia AngolaPress reports...

Our Lungs Are 'Innately Prone' To Silicosis And Related Diseases According To New Discovery

For the nearly 2 million U.S. workers exposed to silica dust each year, a new discovery may help prevent or treat the development of chronic lung diseases related to this exposure...

Tool In Development Which Could Predict Which Patients Will Develop Tuberculosis

It may soon be possible to identify patients who will develop tuberculosis, as scientists have identified changes in the blood specific to the disease. These findings are from an international study published in Nature and conducted by doctors and researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital using blood profiling techniques to understand infections...

Recent Releases In Global Health

Lancet Infectious Diseases Reflects On TB Diagnosis In Children "[N]ew diagnostic techniques [for tuberculosis] need to be studied in children," according to a Lancet Infectious Diseases Reflection...

Elsevier And KIT Sign MoU To Provide ScienceDirect And Scopus To 150 Developing Country Researchers

Elsevier and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam announced on 26th of August the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) providing 150 researchers working in least-developed and low-income countries (for example Benin, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Togo etc...

Bringing The Development Of New Medicines Into The Open

An unlikely effort is underway to lift the veil of nearly-total secrecy that has surrounded the process of developing new prescription drugs for the last century, scientists said at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS)...

Also In Global Health News: Active TB Genetic Marker Found; African Bishops Fight HIV; Polio Eradication; PEPFAR In Dominican Republic

Active TB "Genetic Signature" FoundResearchers have identified a "genetic signature" in the blood of active tuberculosis patients in the U.K. and South Africa that could one day lead to a test to predict who among latent carriers might develop the disease, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Reuters reports (Kelland, 8/18)...

New Study Reveals Management And Prevention Of HIV, TB & Malaria Remains Inadequate Within The Upstream Oil Industry Supply Chain

A new study reveals that the oil and gas industry supply chain - which includes oil companies, contractors and sub-contractors - does not perceive the full extent of the risks that HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria pose to its workforce, productivity and profitability...

AAP Issues Flu Vaccine Recommendations

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has issued updated recommendations for the use of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine and antiviral medications for the prevention and treatment of influenza in children...

European Medicines Agency Starts Review Of Pandemrix

The European Medicines Agency has launched a review of Pandemrix on the request of the European Commission to investigate whether there is a link between cases of narcolepsy and vaccination with Pandemrix. A limited number of cases was reported, all collected through spontaneous reporting systems, mainly in Sweden and Finland...

Is Flu Jab Pandemrix Linked To Narcolepsy? European Medicines Agency Investigates

The European Commission asked the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to investigate whether GlaxoSmithKline's flu jab, Panemrix is linked to a higher risk of developing narcoplepsy. The EMEA says the investigation is now underway. Some cases of narcolepsy were reported in Finland and Sweden - the EMEA says they were all "collected through spontaneous reporting systems"...

H1N1 Flu Especially Hard On Children With Sickle Cell Disease

Children with sickle cell disease are especially hard-hit by the H1N1 flu strain, causing more life-threatening complications than the seasonal flu, according to a study from Johns Hopkins Children's Center...

CDC Updates Estimates Of US Flu Deaths

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that updated estimates of flu deaths in the US in recent decades show that rather than widely cited annual figure of 36,000, which is too high anyway, the estimated numbers have fluctuated from as low as 3,500 to as high as nearly 49,000, depending on which flu viruses have been prominent...

Norway Is Probably Well Prepared For Major New Outbreaks Of Swine Flu

By autumn 2009, almost half of the population of Norway had been vaccinated against the pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus. Many had also been infected by the virus during the summer and autumn outbreaks. The majority of those who were vaccinated or were infected are expected to have developed immunity to the virus...

H1N1 (swine Flu) Activity Remains Locally Intense In Part Of India And New Zealand

The World Health Organization (WHO) informs that H1N1 virus transmission continues to be intense in parts of New Zealand and India. During the first week of August, the national consultation rate in New Zealand for influenza-like illness (ILI) increased sharply, especially in parts of the country that were less affected by last winter's pandemic wave...

New Research Pinpoints Tiny Invaders

In the war against infectious disease, identifying the culprit is half the battle. Now, research professor Shaopeng Wang and his colleagues from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, describe a new method for visualizing individual virus particles...

Swine Flu Vaccine, Pandemrix, Halted In Finland, Possible Narcolepsy Risk

The vaccination of children and adolescents in Finland with swine flu vaccine - Pandemrix - has been suspended until a link to narcolepsy has either been ruled out or detected, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Wefare (THL - Terveyden ja Hyvinvoinin Laitos) announced today. THL said this is a precautionary measure until the issue has been adequately examined and explained...

Experimental Drug AVI-7100 Has Good Potential Against H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

Two preclinical studies which evaluated AVI-7100 against a fully virulent pandemic H1N1 (swine flu) virus had promising results, says AVI Biopharma Inc. Data from the studies revealed statistically significant reductions in average viral titer vs. a saline control (placebo) and a Tamiflu control. (Pre-clinical studies means studies with animals, not humans) J...