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One-Third Of Antimalarial Medicines Sampled In 3 African Nations Found To Be Substandard

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries reveal that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum ...

read more The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries reveal that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum read more Fri Mar 2010

Chemical Found In Feverfew Shuts Down Pro-Survival Signal In Resistant Breast Cancer Cells

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Combining tamoxifen, the world's most prescribed breast cancer agent, with a compound found in the flowering plant feverfew may prevent initial or future resistance to the drug, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding, reported online Feb... ...

read more Combining tamoxifen, the world's most prescribed breast cancer agent, with a compound found in the flowering plant feverfew may prevent initial or future resistance to the drug, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The finding, reported online Feb... read more Fri Mar 2010

Team Develops New Weapon To Fight Disease-Causing Bacteria, Malaria

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Researchers report that they have discovered - and now know how to exploit - an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to survive. The research team, from the University of Illinois, also has developed the first potent inhibitor of this ch ...

read more Researchers report that they have discovered - and now know how to exploit - an unusual chemical reaction mechanism that allows malaria parasites and many disease-causing bacteria to survive. The research team, from the University of Illinois, also has developed the first potent inhibitor of this ch read more Fri Mar 2010

Antibiotics As Active Mutagens In The Emergence Of Multidrug Resistance

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Multidrug resistant bacteria such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose a major problem for patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry. To combat such bacteria, it is critical to understand how resistance is developed in the first place... ...

read more Multidrug resistant bacteria such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pose a major problem for patients, doctors, and the pharmaceutical industry. To combat such bacteria, it is critical to understand how resistance is developed in the first place... read more Fri Mar 2010

Low Levels Of Antibiotics Cause Multidrug Resistance In 'Superbugs'

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
For years, doctors have warned patients to finish their antibiotic prescriptions or risk a renewed infection by a "superbug" that can mount a more powerful defense against the same drug... ...

read more For years, doctors have warned patients to finish their antibiotic prescriptions or risk a renewed infection by a read more Fri Mar 2010

Genome Study Shows How Strep Throat Germ Circumvents Our Immune System

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Investigators at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston examined for the first time the long-term response to strep throat on a genome-wide level, shedding light on how group A streptococcus interacts with the patient's immune system and attempts to circumvent it. Results were publishe ...

read more Investigators at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston examined for the first time the long-term response to strep throat on a genome-wide level, shedding light on how group A streptococcus interacts with the patient's immune system and attempts to circumvent it. Results were publishe read more Fri Mar 2010

Hospital-Acquired Infections, MRSA, Killed 48,000 Americans In One Year

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
According to a new study, sepsis and pneumonia, two common conditions caused by hospital-aquired infections like MRSA, killed 48,000 Americans in 2006, and cost the nation over 8 billion dollars to treat... ...

read more According to a new study, sepsis and pneumonia, two common conditions caused by hospital-aquired infections like MRSA, killed 48,000 Americans in 2006, and cost the nation over 8 billion dollars to treat... read more Fri Mar 2010

VARI Findings May Help Patients With Deadly Kidney Cancer

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have found a way to reverse resistance to sunitinib, a treatment that is currently the first line of defense against clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), a deadly form of kidney cancer. Most patients who show a positive response to sunitinib deve ...

read more Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) researchers have found a way to reverse resistance to sunitinib, a treatment that is currently the first line of defense against clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), a deadly form of kidney cancer. Most patients who show a positive response to sunitinib deve read more Fri Mar 2010

Key To Antibiotic Resistance Is To Leave No Enemies Behind, Says Expert

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A new paper in the February 17th edition of the journal Molecular Cell describes how exposure to low levels of antibiotics increases mutations in E. coli and Staphylococcus bacteria hundreds of times more than normal, making the creation of drug-resistant strains more likely... ...

read more A new paper in the February 17th edition of the journal Molecular Cell describes how exposure to low levels of antibiotics increases mutations in E. coli and Staphylococcus bacteria hundreds of times more than normal, making the creation of drug-resistant strains more likely... read more Fri Mar 2010

CDC's Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices Recommends Pfizer's Prevnar 13™ Vaccine For The Prevention Of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) announced that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended the use of Prevnar 13™ (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) for healthy children aged 2 ...

read more Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) announced that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has recommended the use of Prevnar 13™ (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) for healthy children aged 2 read more Fri Mar 2010

FDA Approves Pneumococcal Disease Vaccine With Broader Protection

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine for infants and young children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. Prevnar 13 will be the successor to Prevnar, the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine licensed by the FDA in 2000 to prevent invasive ...

read more The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Prevnar 13, a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine for infants and young children ages 6 weeks through 5 years. Prevnar 13 will be the successor to Prevnar, the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine licensed by the FDA in 2000 to prevent invasive read more Fri Mar 2010

News From The American Journal Of Pathology, March 2010

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Toxin Does Not Affect MRSA-Induced Pneumonia A group led by Dr. James M. Musser at the Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas has demonstrated that the cytotoxin Paton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) does no ...

read more Toxin Does Not Affect MRSA-Induced Pneumonia A group led by Dr. James M. Musser at the Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, Texas has demonstrated that the cytotoxin Paton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) does no read more Fri Mar 2010

World MRSA Day 2010 Theme, 'The MRSA Epidemic - A Call To Action'

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
MRSA Survivors Network, the nonprofit and official organization for World MRSA Day has announced the theme for 2010: "The MRSA Epidemic- A Call to Action... ...

read more MRSA Survivors Network, the nonprofit and official organization for World MRSA Day has announced the theme for 2010: read more Fri Mar 2010

Research Fellowship To Halt Super Bug Invasion, Australia

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains... ...

read more A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains... read more Wed Feb 2010

Findings Of Poor Quality Malaria Drugs In Africa Add To Artemisinin-Resistance Worries

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
A study released on Monday found that between 26 percent and 44 percent of artemisinin-based malaria drugs sold in Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda "failed quality testing" because of impurities or insufficient amounts of active ingredient, the Associated Press reports. The study, which was conducted ...

read more A study released on Monday found that between 26 percent and 44 percent of artemisinin-based malaria drugs sold in Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda read more Wed Feb 2010

Cempra Completes Enrollment Of Phase 2 Portion Of Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial Of TAKSTA(TM) For Treatment Of Acute Bacterial Skin And Structure Infection

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Cempra Pharmaceuticals announced completion of enrollment of the Phase 2 portion of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial of TAKSTA (sodium fusidate; CEM-102) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections... ...

read more Cempra Pharmaceuticals announced completion of enrollment of the Phase 2 portion of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial of TAKSTA (sodium fusidate; CEM-102) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections... read more Sun Jan 2010

Workers Combat Hospital Infections

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
CNN reports on efforts to combat hospital-acquired infections, which affect 1.7 million people each year and kill 99,000, while adding $28 billion to the nation's overall health care bill, according to federal research. "But there are signs of improvement... ...

read more CNN reports on efforts to combat hospital-acquired infections, which affect 1.7 million people each year and kill 99,000, while adding $28 billion to the nation's overall health care bill, according to federal research. read more Sun Jan 2010

Sorrento Therapeutics Announces Antibody Discovery And Development Alliance For The Prevention And Treatment Of MRSA Infections

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SRNE) announced an antibody discovery and development collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA... ...

read more Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SRNE) announced an antibody discovery and development collaboration with The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA... read more Sun Jan 2010

Atlantic Examines Drug-Resistant TB Control Worldwide

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
The Atlantic examines the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis around the world, with a look at the situation in South Africa. "[T]he resurgence of tuberculosis is not limited to South Africa... ...

read more The Atlantic examines the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis around the world, with a look at the situation in South Africa. read more Sun Jan 2010

Reuters Examines TB In China

Categorie : MRSA / Drug Resistance
Reuters examines efforts to control tuberculosis in China, which has the "world's second largest tuberculosis burden after India." The news service writes, "China has 4.5 million TB cases currently; and each year 1.4 million people fall ill with the disease. TB killed 160,000 people in China ...

read more Reuters examines efforts to control tuberculosis in China, which has the read more Mon Jan 2010

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