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Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness is Everybody's Responsibility

Today on the CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, discusses the urgent need to preserve antibiotics. He highlights the emerging crisis of antibiotic resistance and likens antibiotics to a ...More

2 weeks ago

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Variations in Antibiotic Prescribing of Acute Rhinosinusitis in Ambulatory Settings

Antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis (ARS) are prescribed frequently— especially for younger adult patients and in primary care settings—despite recent consensus guidelines that discourage antibiotic use in mild cases, according to a study in the May 2013 issue of ...More

2 weeks ago

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Serendipitous Scientific Discovery Holds Potential in Destroying Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Through the serendipity of science, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a potential treatment for deadly, drug-resistant bacterial infections that uses the same approach that HIV uses to infect cells. The National Institutes of Health-supported ...More

2 weeks ago

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New Antibiotic is Based on Studies of Phage

A new broad-spectrum antibiotic, developed jointly by scientists at the Rockefeller University and Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been found to kill a wide range of bacteria, including drug-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria that do not respond to traditional drugs. The ...More

April 11, 2013

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Certain Antibiotics May Help Respiratory Disorder, Increase Risk of Antibiotic Resistance

Among patients with the lung disorder non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis, treatment with the antibiotic azithromycin or erythromycin resulted in improvement in symptoms but also increased the risk of antibiotic resistance, according to two studies appearing in the March 27 ...More

March 26, 2013

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Study Investigates Prolonged Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care Facilities

An analysis of antibiotic prescribing in long-term care facilities in Canada by Nick Daneman, MD, MSc, of the University of Toronto, Canada, and colleagues suggests that antibiotic treatment courses are often prescribed for long durations and seem to be influenced by ...More

March 18, 2013

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Nearly One-Third of Antibiotic Prescriptions for Dialysis Patients are Inappropriate

Patients who receive hemodialysis are at a significant risk of developing infections, a leading cause of hospitalization and death in this patient population. A new study highlights the need to improve antibiotic use in outpatient dialysis facilities as data shows nearly a ...More

March 12, 2013

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Experts Say Antibiotic Resistance Has Potential to Undermine Healthcare, Create 'Apocalyptic Scenario'

Antibiotic resistance “has the potential to undermine modern health systems,” argue health economists Richard Smith and Joanna Coast on bmj.com today. They believe that an increase in resistant organisms coupled with a big fall in the number of new antimicrobial drugs ...More

March 11, 2013

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Study Shows Antibiotics are Unique Assassins

In recent years, a body of publications in the microbiology field has challenged all previous knowledge of how antibiotics kill bacteria. “A slew of papers came out studying this phenomenon, suggesting that there is a general mechanism of killing by ...More

March 11, 2013

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Scientists Unveil Secrets of Important Natural Antibiotic

An international team of scientists has discovered how an important natural antibiotic called dermcidin, produced by our skin when we sweat, is a highly efficient tool to fight tuberculosis germs and other dangerous bugs. Their results could contribute to the development of ...More

February 21, 2013

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