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  • Life-Threatening STIs Are Spiking Across the US, Per CDC Data: ‘Out of Control’

    02/01/2024 7:05:12 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 68 replies
    New York Post ^ | Feb. 1, 2024 | Adriana Diaz
    Health officials are warning that the rise of life-threatening sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is “out of control.” According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, STIs are on a worrying rise putting millions of people’s lives at risk from entirely preventable infections. “STIs must be a public health priority,” the CDC warned on Tuesday. The health agency noted that “the most alarming concerns” revolve around syphilis cases — which are at the highest level they’ve been in more than seven decades. Reported chlamydia cases have remained at a record high level but gonorrhea cases did decline...
  • Shortened antibiotic treatment for ventilator-associated pneumonia in ICU patients just as effective as standard course

    Less is also better—that is what researchers have found while conducting a tri-nation clinical trial to see if shorter courses of antibiotics are as effective as longer prescriptions of the drug to treat ventilator-associated pneumonia. The four-year long study involved 460 patients. While personalized short-course treatment duration for patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) was just as effective in comparison to the standard treatment duration, the short-course treatment strategy also successfully reduced antibiotic side effects from 38% to 8%. VAP is a common lung infection among critically ill patients who are dependent on ventilators to breathe. The infection risk of death...
  • Study finds two antibiotics for children with sinusitis equally effective, but one has fewer side effects (Choose amoxicillin without clavulanate)

    09/20/2023 12:15:50 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 3 replies
    Medical Xpress / Brigham and Women's Hospital / JAMA ^ | Sept. 19, 2023 | Timothy J. Savage et al
    In a new study, researchers found that patients prescribed amoxicillin-clavulanate had higher rates of gastrointestinal symptoms and yeast infections than those prescribed amoxicillin. Acute sinusitis is one of the most common causes for children to be put on antibiotic medications. Scientists analyzed the treatment outcomes of over 300,000 children who were prescribed either of the two drugs. They found that there was no difference in the rates of treatment failure between patients prescribed amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanate. Treatment failure was so rare that the study's authors say that physicians should be confident that either medication will clear a case of acute...
  • Why Tiny Viruses Could Be Our Best Bet Against Antimicrobial Resistance

    05/12/2023 4:57:09 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    MIT Technology Review ^ | May 12, 2023 | Jessica Hamzelou
    Phages—tiny entities that infect bacteria—were discovered over 100 years ago but were largely abandoned as therapies. Now they’re making a comeback.Regular readers will know that the microbiome is one of my favorite topics to cover. The billions of bacteria crawling all over our bodies play a vital role in our health, influencing everything from digestion to immune health and even our moods. But there’s something else that makes a home inside us. Bacteriophages—or phages for short—are microscopic viruses even smaller than our gut microbes. These viruses infect bacteria and turn them into factories to make more of themselves. Phages were...
  • New guidance: Antibiotics should be halted upon closure of incisions

    05/05/2023 8:46:26 AM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 4 replies
    Antibiotics administered before and during surgery should be discontinued immediately after a patient's incision is closed, according to updated recommendations for preventing surgical site infections. Experts found no evidence that continuing antibiotics after a patient's incision has been closed, even if it has drains, prevents surgical site infections. Continuing antibiotics does increase the patient's risk of C. difficile infection, which causes severe diarrhea, and antimicrobial resistance. "Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2022 Update," provides evidence-based strategies for preventing infections for all types of surgeries from top experts from five medical organizations led by the Society...
  • New test reveals existing antibiotics, hiding in plain sight on pharmacy shelves, can cure superbugs

    05/01/2023 5:08:56 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 20 replies
    Medical Xpress / University of California - Santa Barbara / Cell Reports Medicine ^ | April 27, 2023 | Shelly Leachman / Douglas M. Heithoff et al
    A new test revealed that FDA-approved antibiotics—available at your neighborhood pharmacy—can effectively treat superbugs. They are not prescribed, however, because the gold-standard test predicts they will not work. The new test may improve the way antibiotics are developed, tested and prescribed—and it is openly available to all. The research has significant implications in the fight against bacterial resistance by optimizing the prescription and use of currently available antibiotics and enhancing the efforts to discover new ones. Developed by a research team, the antibiotic study addressed a fundamental flaw in the healthcare paradigm for determining antibiotic resistance. It does not account...
  • FDA approves first pill that’s literally filled with human fecal matter

    04/28/2023 12:34:52 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | Apr 28, 2023 · | Staff
    You can't even make this stuff up. The FDA just approved a pill to fight Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) that is literally just filled with other people's poop. C. diff is a particularly nasty bacteria that results in uncontrollable diarrhea and is responsible for 30,000 to 40,000 deaths in the United States every year. Most cases of C. diff occur after someone has been on antibiotics for an extended period, wiping out all the naturally occurring bacteria in their gut, allowing C. diff to propagate unabated. The new pill called Vowst has fecal matter from healthy people and is full...
  • Antibiotics after breast cancer linked to poorer survival, study finds

    04/22/2023 7:48:17 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 10 replies
    Medical Xpress / Stanford University Medical Center / Nature Communications ^ | April 21, 2023 | Krista Conger / Julia D. Ransohoff et al
    Women with triple-negative breast cancer who received multiple antibiotic prescriptions within three years after their cancer diagnosis were more likely to experience disease recurrence and to die from their cancer than those who took fewer courses of the drugs, according to a study. The effect on survival was not due to differences in cancer severity, the study showed. The risk increased substantially with the total number and types of antibiotics prescribed for each patient. "Each additional antibiotic increased the risk of death between 5% and 18% relative to patients who weren't prescribed antibiotics," said Julia Ransohoff, MD. The researchers found...
  • Hospital Superbugs Can Be Brought Under Control by a Surprise Weapon – Zinc

    04/14/2023 3:30:01 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 41 replies
    Mirror ^ | 13 Apr 2023 | Miriam Stoppard
    X-ray research leads to surprise find - zinc affects the stability of cells in superbug and removing it kills them, writes Dr Miriam StoppardYou might remember zinc best as zinc oxide, the thick white cream slathered on babies with nappy rash and used for burns, cuts and scrapes. It’s a good barrier cream to protect the skin. But internally, zinc serves useful functions too – one of which is helping the production of healthy sperm. That’s because it promotes cell growth and multiplication, and supports the immune system. Now, exciting research from Warwick University is pointing the way to...
  • Doctor Burnout Linked to Overprescribing Opioids, Antibiotics: Study

    04/05/2023 3:03:28 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    Doctor burnout has been linked to overprescribing opioids and antibiotics, a new study suggests. The study published in the British Journal of General Practice found that general practitioners who work long hours are up to five times more likely to prescribe high levels of medications. Researchers at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) center at the University of Manchester surveyed 320 GPs over 57 practices between December 2019 and April 2020 for signs of burnout including emotional exhaustion, low job satisfaction and feeling detached from colleagues and patients. They linked the burnout scores to an analysis of...
  • China Controls Your Meds

    03/30/2023 6:26:05 AM PDT · by Heartlander · 31 replies
    Creators.com ^ | March 29, 2023 | Betsy McCaughey
    China Controls Your MedsDemocrats and Republicans battered TikTok’s CEO at a House of Representatives hearing on Thursday — for good reason. The Chinese app poses a national security risk, accumulating troves of data on its American users. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s slithery comment that “I don’t think spying is the right way to describe it,” only heightened concerns.Another Terrifying Chinese ThreatToo bad another Chinese threat — bigger and more immediate — isn’t getting the same attention. China has a chokehold on our medication supply chain. Beijing controls many — in some cases, all — active ingredients for the remedies...
  • Study Finds Silver Nanoparticles Can Supercharge Antibiotic

    03/25/2023 4:05:31 PM PDT · by Enterprise · 29 replies
    https://www.theepochtimes.com ^ | Mar 25 2023 | Sharleen Lucas, R.N.
    Antimicrobial-resistant infections are a leading cause of global death, killing nearly 1.3 million people yearly and outpacing malaria and HIV, according to a 2022 study published in The Lancet. In January 2023, a study published in Frontiers in Microbiology confirmed mounting evidence that adding silver nanoparticles to certain antibiotics boosts their ability to kill resistant bacteria.Knowledge of silver’s antimicrobial value has been around since ancient times. Silver nanoparticles (AgNP), however, with their tiny spheres interacting at the cellular level, signify a new frontier in fighting bacteria, gaining more attention over the past two decades.This new study adds to mounting evidence...
  • 'I've never seen anything like this': Doctors warn America is running out of FOUR child antibiotics and flu drugs as kids bear brunt of 'tripledemic'

    11/23/2022 3:15:57 AM PST · by C19fan · 47 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | November 22, 2022 | Mansur Shaheen and Caitlin Tilley
    America is running short on four key antibiotics and respiratory drugs for children, as seasonal bugs come back with a bang after being suppressed during lockdowns. Health officials have declared a shortage of amoxicillin, a vital antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections such as pneumonia, respiratory infections and strep throat. But doctors on the ground are also reporting dwindling stocks of Augmentin - a antibiotic drug that uses amoxicillin alongside clavulanic acid - Tamiflu, the most commonly used flu medication in US hospitals, and albuterol, an inhaler for asthma and to relieve other lung symptoms.
  • First Vanity in 20 Years - Stock up on Antibotics

    08/19/2022 6:59:32 AM PDT · by Quilla · 89 replies
    Trip Smith ^ | August 19, 2022 | None
    My son makes YouTube videos for a living and is sponsored by a small array of advertisers. Recently he was sponsored by a company, Jase Medical, that allows one to visit an online doctor and after answering a few simple questions, you are prescribed 5 emergency antibiotics. The antibiotics treat pneumonia, bladder infections, bio-terror, Montezuma's revenge, and wound infections. I thought this was an incredible premise/service and wanted to share with you the ability to have a potentially life-saving supply on hand in case the SHTF. I filled in the short online questionnaire and received by antibiotics in the mail...
  • Antibiotic resistance crisis in post-pandemic world

    05/14/2022 1:49:37 AM PDT · by Jyotishi · 8 replies
    The Pioneer ^ | Friday, May 13, 2022 | Dr. Sujata Sharma
    Antimicrobial resistance stewardship programs have to be prioritized, keeping the demands of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic in context On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic. Two years later, the shadow of the Covid pandemic is still looming over us. While the world is making valiant attempts to move into the post-pandemic phase, the situation is akin to “one step forward, two-step backward”, as new variants of this virus are still emerging. Covid-19 has taken center stage in every facet of life. Policymakers and medical personnel are still...
  • Treating COVID-19 With Antibiotics Leading to the Creation of More Superbugs

    04/26/2022 11:52:13 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Study Finds ^ | APRIL 25, 2022 | Chris Melore
    Antibiotics that are helping to treat patients with COVID-19 may actually be fueling a concerning rise in the number of superbugs infecting people worldwide. Researchers in the United States have found that cases of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are going up in comparison to the last year before the coronavirus pandemic. Concerningly, drug resistant infections which develop while a patient is in the hospital are soaring during COVID, and these infections are affecting those with and without the virus. According to Dr. Karri Bauer and Dr. Vikas Gupta, approximately 1.2 million people died worldwide of an antibiotic-resistant infection in 2019. Estimates...
  • Man ‘Hears God’ While Hallucinating on Antibiotics in ‘Rare Phenomenon’

    02/04/2022 1:29:10 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 45 replies
    New York Post ^ | February 4, 2022 | Hannah Sparks
    A case of pneumonia led one man to “hear God” after tripping on antibiotics in a rare case of antibiomania, a state of psychosis from taking the common remedy. A recently published case study appearing in the journal BMC Psychiatry reported symptoms of a 50-year-old man with a bacterial infection of the respiratory illness, requiring antibiotics to treat. However, the man who had never before ingested an antibiotic in his life soon discovered he is one of the few people in the world who experience psychedelic hallucinations thanks to conventional antibiotics. The report described the man as having mood swings,...
  • Scientists find link between antibiotics and colon cancer (50% increase before 50, 9% for over 50)

    01/28/2022 12:12:50 PM PST · by ConservativeMind · 18 replies
    Scientists have found that antibiotic use may increase the risk of developing colon cancer, potentially more so among younger people. The study compared antibiotic use and lifestyle factors of those who had colorectal cancer and those who didn’t. Antibiotic use was found to be associated with the development of colon cancer. The researchers also found antibiotic use was linked with an estimated 50 percent higher risk of colon cancer in people aged under 50, and an estimated 9 percent higher risk in those 50 and over. Sarah Perrott adds: "We found antibiotic exposure was associated with colon cancer among all...
  • Biden's America: Supply Chain Breakdown Preventing Cancer Patients from Getting Life-Saving Drugs

    10/25/2021 5:00:06 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 14 replies
    www.westernjournal.com ^ | October 25, 2021 | Samantha Chang
    President Joe Biden’s inept leadership has spawned tragic tentacles as supply chain shortages threaten to kill cancer and COVID-19 patients unable to receive life-saving drugs. The FDA currently lists 109 drugs in short supply nationally. Three of the top five medications shortages are drugs used for chemotherapy, heart conditions and antibiotics. One of the scarce drugs is the anti-inflammatory tocilizumab, used by both cancer and COVID-19 patients. The scarcity has forced physicians to ration drugs. Dr. Patrick Jackson, an infectious-disease physician gives tocilizumab to chemotherapy patients while denying COVID patients because there simply isn’t enough to go around. Brian Spoehlhof,...
  • The Next Pandemic Is Already Here – Why Our World Leaders Should Take Notice of Antimicrobial Resistance

    06/27/2021 2:55:53 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 34 replies
    New Statesman ^ | 6/2 | Dr. Tina Joshi
    The next pandemic is already here – why our world leaders should take notice of antimicrobial resistance Infection prevention and control must underpin any future economy. The main thing we know about the G7 summit discussions is that the world response to Covid-19 will feature heavily. We need a joined-up approach to recovery, along with preparedness and resilience for the next pandemic. After all, despite history telling us that they occur once every 100 years, the next one is already here. Alongside climate change, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the most urgent global healthcare challenge for the human species. Micro-organisms such...