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Original Technorati articles tagged “antibiotics”

• in Lifestyle
  FDA Limits Antibiotic Use in Livestock
  The FDA released a report limiting the use of a commonly used class of antibiotics in livestock.
  by jenna3967 / on Jan 5, 2012
• in Lifestyle
  Two Children Die From Scarlet Fever in Hong Kong
  A recent outbreak of scarlet fever in Hong Kong has killed two young children.
  by jenna3967 / on Jun 22, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Thugs, Drugs and the War on Bugs Provides an Alternative Look at American Healthcare
  “Technically, anything that lives off of you can be considered a parasite…bacteria, yeast, fungi, viruses…and teenage children…” –Dr. Brad Case
  by missbobetier / on Jan 1, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “antibiotics”

 

• Garlic 100x more effective than antibiotics

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 556
  “Postdoctoral researcher and lead author of this study, Xiaonan Lu, along with co-author Michael Konkel, who has been researching Campylobacter strains for 25 years, found that one secret to garlic’s amazing potency in fighting bacteria and illness comes from the amazing and multifaceted bulb’s derivative ...
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• What’s the secret of bacteria’s success?

  
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  By Sebastian Amyes   Bacteria have achieved many firsts; they were the first cellular life-forms on the planet, they are the primary biomass on the planet; they are the most prevalent cell type in and on the human body outnumbering our own cells; they are responsible for more human deaths than any other ...
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• Strep throat may be linked to OCD, autism-spectrum disorders

  
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  The use of antibiotics may now expand to helping treat some strep throat related OCD cases. Image: Flickr / _lulu / CC-BY In a research paper due to be published next year, an Israeli research team has linked childrens strep throat to obsessive-compulsive disorder. A condition called PANDAS, it is estimated that 1 ...
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• MRSA Revisited: “Out, D-a-m-n-e-d Spot! Out, I Say!”

  
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  Four or five months ago when I was doing my routine self-breast check I found a small pea sized lump on my breastbone, nestled in my cleavage. A quick check with our doctor at the time confirmed what I had first thought — a fatty lump or sebaceous cyst — nothing to be concerned about. […]
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• The Link Between Pregnancy and Acne

  
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  Ask any woman with more than one child and she will tell you that no two pregnancies are ever the same. Many women experience a variety of symptoms during their pregnancy, from morning sickness to strange cravings. However, there is one other common issue that many women probably don’t even realize is related to ...
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• Back Pain Discovery Potentially Revolutionary and Game Changing

  
  Depleted Cranium — Authority: 119
  Throughout medical history, it was always believed that peptic ulcers were simply the result of gastric acid and inadequate mucus lining within the digestive tract, the primary causes being diet and stress.   Sufferers lived for years with ulcers, with acid blockers, antacids and dietary changes helping to control ...
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• No, a Sex Superbug ‘Worse Than AIDS’ Did Not Just Hit the U.S.

  
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  Reports of a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea that were supposedly found in parts of America and could have been “worse than AIDS” are, as it turns out, untrue. Here’s what happened and what you need to know. Last week, the Associated Press and a number of other news agencies and sites including CNBC ran a ...
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• Calling for cocktail of open-mindedness and skepticism in UK news about antibiotics for back pain

  
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  Newspapers in the UK went nuts today with stories about “Nobel-worthy” research and “breakthrough” and “cure.” Interestingly, the story is slow to crack US news organizations yet. The Guardian:  Back pain breakthrough could eliminate need for major operations The Daily Mail: Antibiotics ...
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• In praise of … antibiotics for back pain | Editorial

  
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  All hail to the Danish researchers who have isolated a bacterial cause of the devil gnawing at their spines De Quincey reckoned a quarter of all human misery was down to toothache ; today he might have chosen back pain instead. As well as the discomfort, there is the loss – the squandered potential of people who ...
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• Antibiotics cure chronic back pain

  
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  Back pain is big business – it’s one of the most common ailments and it will affect almost everyone sometime in their life. It is often very difficult to diagnose exactly what caused a particular bout of back pain, and advice for treatment seems to change as often as the wind, possibly in part because [...]
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• Fighting bacteria with a new genre of antibodies

  
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  In an advance toward coping with bacteria that shrug off existing antibiotics and sterilization methods, scientists are reporting development of a new family of selective antimicrobial agents that do not rely on traditional antibiotics. Their report on these synthetic colloid particles, which can be custom-designed to ...
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• We Knew It Was Coming: The Sex Superbug

  
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  Aids has killed about 30 million since it came on the scene in the 1980s, and the new sex superbug, a strain of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics, may prove to be more virulent and spread through the population faster."This might be a lot worse than AIDS in the short run because the bacteria is more aggressive and ...
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• Good News Amidst the Unappetizing: Turkey Raised Without Antibiotics Less Likely to Carry Superbugs

  
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  The independent product testing organization Consumer Reports, which regularly tests and rates a raft of consumer products—from lawnmowers, to washing machines, to baby monitors, to cars—recently focused its meticulous consumer product testing methods on America’s turkey burgers, releasing the results of their ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Restrictions change prescribing habits faster than persuasion

  
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  When it comes to changing antibiotic prescribing habits, a "stick" approach is useful when an immediate change in prescribing habits is needed, but the "carrot" approach is equally as effective after 6 months, a meta-analysis showed. A review that appeared in The Cochrane Library updated studies done since December ...
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• Consumer Reports finds turkey raised without antibiotics has less antibiotic resistance than conventional turkey.

  
  View From the Empty Nest — Authority: 131
  Of the turkey samples Consumer Reports tested, 90% showed the presence of bacteria of concern. The bacteria found could potentially cause disease and which showed marked resistance in more than three antibiotic classes. Dr. Urvashi Rangan of Consumer Read more [...]You may also like...Rehtaeh Parsons could get justice ...
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• New FERN Story Looks at Antibiotic Resistance in Livestock

  
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  In the latest report by the Food & Environment Reporting Network , out today in May/June issue of Eating Well magazine, looks at the growing issue of antibiotic resistance due to the routine use of antibiotics in livestock production. Reporter Barry Estabrook, author of the New York Times bestselling book ...
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• Medical sleuths: Help wanted

  
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  Laura N. is a friend. A relative of hers is in a bad way: critically sick, with different specialists thinking along different lines both in terms of whats going on with the patient and the best way(s) to help. Please offer your help or questions in the comments or contact me if youd like more information. The ...
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• Is It Immoral to Make Life-Saving Drugs Cost Millions?

  
  Care2 Causes: Human Rights — Authority: 134
  Is the high cost of many medications immoral?
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• Antibiotics, Prebiotics and Probiotics

  
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  Antibiotics are used to help people get well when they are sick due to an illness caused by bad bacteria. Unfortunately not everyone is aware that antibiotics were intended to specifically fight bacteria. Misuse of antibiotics has caused some bacteria to become resistant to many medications. On the other hand, ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Elderly women inappropriately given antibiotics for suspected UTIs

  
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  Nearly half of older women diagnosed with a urinary tract infection (UTI) in an emergency department setting did not have confirmatory findings on urine culture and were given antibiotics inappropriately, a study found. To determine how often older women presenting to an emergency department are diagnosed with a UTI ...
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