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Researchers Discover Why Old Schizophrenia Medicine Works on Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

In 2008 researchers from the University of Southern Denmark showed that the drug thioridazine, which has previously been used to treat schizophrenia, is also a powerful weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...More

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Peer-Referral Programs Can Increase HIV-Testing in Emergency Departments

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that incorporating a peer-referral program for HIV testing into emergency departments can reach new groups of high-risk patients and brings more patients into the hospital for testing. Co-author and assistant ...More

2 hours ago

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New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide

New Malaria Test Kit Boosts Elimination Efforts Worldwide A new, highly sensitive blood test that quickly detects even the lowest levels of malaria parasites in the body could make a dramatic difference in efforts to tackle the disease in the UK and across the world, ...More

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New Test Better Detects Elephantiasis Worm Infection

A new diagnostic test for a worm infection that can lead to severe enlargement and deformities of the legs and genitals is far more sensitive than the currently used test, according to results of a field study in Liberia, in West Africa, where the infection is endemic. The ...More

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Targeting High-Risk Neighborhoods May Eliminate Tuberculosis

Identifying specific neighborhoods that have a high incidence of tuberculosis followed by testing and treating the residents proved to eliminate those communities’ cases of tuberculosis, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. A latent ...More

Yesterday

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Researchers are Attacking MRSA With Metals From Antibacterial Clays

In the race to protect society from infectious microbes, the bugs are outrunning us. The need for new therapeutic agents is acute, given the emergence of novel pathogens as well as old foes bearing heightened antibiotic resistance. Shelley Haydel, a researcher at Arizona ...More

3 days ago

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Leading Explanations for Whooping Cough's Resurgence Don't Stand Up to Scrutiny

Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence. Some say the vaccine wears off quicker than public health officials had previously ...More

3 days ago

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Prenatal Exposure to Traffic is Associated with Respiratory Infection in Young Children

Living near a major roadway during the prenatal period is associated with an increased risk of respiratory infection developing in children by the age of 3, according to a new study from researchers in Boston. “The connection between in utero and early life cigarette smoke ...More

3 days ago

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Early Childhood Respiratory Infections May Explain Link Between Analgesics and Asthma

A new study conducted by Boston researchers reports that the link between asthma and early childhood use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen may be driven by underlying respiratory infections that prompt the use of these analgesics, rather than the drugs themselves. The results ...More

3 days ago

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Source of Infection Affects Hospital Mortality in Septic Shock Patients in the ICU

In ICU patients who have septic shock, the anatomic source of infection has a strong effect on the chances of survival, according to a new study from researchers in Canada. “Understanding the local infection source in patients with septic shock may influence treatment ...More

3 days ago

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