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Antibiotics wreak havoc on the gut. Can we kill the bad bugs and spare the good ones?
Los Angeles Times· 23 hours agoInside every human is a thriving zoo of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microscopic organisms...
£8m Longitude Prize won for tackling superbug rise
BBC via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoIt has been awarded for a test that rapidly detects whether an infection is caused by bacteria and identifies the right antibiotics to treat it. The test...
New Era? 'Double Selective' Antibiotic Spares the Microbiome
Medscape· 6 days agoA new antibiotic uses a never-before-seen mechanism to deliver a direct hit on tough-to-treat...
Statins pioneer Akira Endo dies aged 90
BBC via AOL· 2 hours agoOther pharmaceutical companies then began to search for similar compounds. And in September 1987 the first statin - lovastatin - was approved in the US...
New antibiotic kills harmful bacteria, spares healthy gut microbes
Interesting Engineering· 4 days agoThe groundbreaking antibiotic called lolamicin kills harmful bacteria while preserving the...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs – and understanding their role could help treat common eye diseases
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoJust like the gut, the skin and the mouth, the eye also has a collection of microbes that keep it...
Long delay in antibiotic administration increases mortality risk in kids with sepsis
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 7 days agoA study of pediatric sepsis patients suggests long delays in initiation of antibiotic therapy...
Salmonella outbreak tied to cucumbers sickens 162
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn such severe cases, the infection can be fatal. Most people recover from Salmonella infection, or salmonellosis, without antibiotics, but others face a...
Thousands of Sources for New Antibiotics to Fight Superbugs Found Using AI–and Dozens Worked
GoodNewsNetwork· 6 days agoHundreds of thousands of potential sources of new antibiotics have been found in the natural world...
Whooping cough cases jump to 24 in Lexington. How to spot symptoms for the disease
Lexington Herald-Leader McClatchy via AOL· 6 days agoWhooping cough (also known as pertussis) is a highly infectious bacterial disease involving the...
