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How the health of your gut microbiome can affect your skin

The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Not only does it act as the first line of defence against external stressors such as environmental toxins, pathogens and pollutants, our skin can also reveal much about our internal health.

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Best Echinacea Supplements: Here Are Top Choices For Your Immunity Needs

Immunity boosters are becoming increasingly popular as more people seek effective ways to enhance their defenses against common colds, flu, and other viral infections. If you are looking to strengthen your immune system, Echinacea, a supplement derived from the coneflower, is worth considering. Echinacea not only helps reduce the frequency…

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Arctic Ocean Microbes Offer Potential New Antibiotics Against Viruses‌ ‌

Scientists discover promising antibiotic candidates in actinobacteria, targeting deadly EPEC strain causing severe diarrhea.‌ ‌

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Arctic expedition uncovers deep-sea microbes that may harbor the next generation of antibiotics

Analysis of samples from an expedition to the Arctic Ocean suggest that marine microbes could be a promising new source of antibiotics.

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Unregulated antibiotic use in animal research likely contributes to human drug resistance, study finds

Survey of 95 labs in Australia and New Zealand finds 71% use antimicrobial drugs and in ways that ‘a lot of the time’ could be avoided

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For C. diff, antibiotic resistance comes at a cost

Researchers have identified two distinct mechanisms of drug resistance in C. difficile, but its ability to withstand antibiotics comes with downsides for the bacteria.

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Viruses can work where antibiotics don’t – new research tells us more about how they fight bacteria

As the globe faces a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria – making traditional antibiotics ineffective – specific viruses could offer a solution.

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Antibiotic resistance makes once-lifesaving drugs useless. Could we reverse it?

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs as a strategy to defend ourselves against the growing antibiotic resistance crisis.

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Govt bans 156 drugs, include antibiotics, painkillers & multivitamins

The Government of India has banned 156 drugs, including painkillers, multivitamins, and antibiotics commonly used for treating fever and colds. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Rapid tests needed to detect viruses or bacteria, amid antibiotics shortage

GPs give antibiotics 'just to be safe', fearing worse-case bugs.

Newcastle Herald

England’s National Park rivers are contaminated with medication including antidepressants and antibiotics

Pharmaceutical pollution was found in river water at 52 locations

The Independent UK

All for one, not one for all: The promise and challenges of personalized medicine

Personalized medicine describes a treatment tailored to one or a few individuals who have potentially deadly health conditions, such as cancer that no longer responds to chemotherapy, or an infection resistant to multiple antibiotics.

The Conversation

Fighting the looming 'silent pandemic'

A medical 'disaster' is looming as the pipeline of antibiotics dries up, with efforts underway to stop the 'silent pandemic'.

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Bacteria that switch antibiotic resistance on and off are going undetected. Microbiologist Karin Hjort is on a mission to find out how they do it.

Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections.

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How fast can antibiotic resistance evolve?

Bacteria can mutate surprisingly fast to resist antibiotics.

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10 of the deadliest superbugs that scientists are worried about

These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, leaving doctors scrambling to help patients who are infected.

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What's the difference between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect the microbes' biology and their vulnerability to different antibiotics.

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Scientists have found a secret 'switch' that lets bacteria resist antibiotics — and it's been evading lab tests for decades

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections.

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Breakthrough in fight against a global health threat

Scientists have developed a method to predict when a bacterial infection will become resistant to antibiotics in what is believed to be a world first.

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s pharmacists could be treating more people

Letter: Allowing pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for a wider range of conditions could take pressure off GPs, writes Dr Jack Pickard

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Babies in Nigeria are being born with antibiotic resistant bacteria

Sepsis occurs when one’s immune system has an extreme response to an infection. It’s a life-threatening condition: globally, it accounts for about 11 million deaths – 20% of all deaths per year.

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Dangerous strains of 'hypervirulent' superbug detected in US and 15 other countries

A drug-resistant bacterium that causes severe infections has been spreading globally, and it's now in at least 16 countries, the WHO warns.

The Conversation

Double whammy antibiotic makes antibiotic resistance much harder – new study

Most antibiotics are natural products of bacteria and other microorganisms from the environment. They are part of a silent chemical warfare among microorganisms in soils, rivers and seas right now. The fact that they are natural products that have been around for millions of years means that even as we…

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“Vomited 10 Times”: Olympic Star Pukes On Live TV After Swimming In Polluted Paris River

"I would urgently take antibiotics right after this competition" The post “Vomited 10 Times”: Olympic Star Pukes On Live TV After Swimming In Polluted Paris River first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Hospital-acquired infections are rising – here’s how to protect yourself in health care settings

A new study from the National Institutes of Health shows a jump in both hospital-acquired infections and resistance to the antibiotics used to treat them. The findings are based on data gathered at 120 U.S. hospitals from January 2018 to December 2022, a five-year period that included the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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