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Superbugs

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Jun 29, 2017

New research reveals how E. coli bacteria construct elaborate and effective tunnels to pump unwanted molecules like antibiotics and other toxins out of cells. The discovery could help us better unders ...

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Jun 27, 2017

Despite the threat of superbugs, physicians continue to prescribe antibiotics when they might not be needed, and patients are suffering.Each week there is more news about an antibiotic losing effectiv ...

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Jun 27, 2017

The search is on to find antibiotics that will work against superbugs — bacteria that are rapidly becoming resistant to many drugs in our antibiotic arsenal.By carefully choosing antibiotics that kill ...

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Jun 19, 2017

Significant strides have been in the race to find antibiotics to treat superbug infections — those caused by bacteria resistant to the antibiotics used to treat them. Now, an international team of sci ...

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Jun 16, 2017

Yogurt is more than an excellent source of protein, calcium, and gut-healthy probiotic bacteria. A protein isolated from probiotic lactobacillus bacteria in yogurt is capable of inhibiting drug-resist ...

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Jun 3, 2017

Joe McKenna died when he was 30 years old. A young married man with his future ahead of him, he was cleaning up the station where he worked as a fireman. Struck by a piece of equipment fallen from a s ...

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Jun 2, 2017

What do Leo Tolstoy (writer), Beethoven (composer), Paul Gaugin (artist), and Adolf Hitler (politician) have in common? They are all considered to have suffered from the sexually transmitted disease s ...

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May 27, 2017

Bacteriotherapy sounds a lot more amenable of a term than "fecal transplant," yet they're both treatments that use bacteria itself to cure or treat infections. Fecal transplants, specifically, are an ...

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May 22, 2017

As researchers from Yale searched our environment for compounds to aid in the battle against drug-resistant bacteria, they got an unlikely assist from ticks.Ticks are best known for being the nasty bl ...

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May 19, 2017

Could your fever, body aches, cough, and sore throat be the flu? Soon, finding out may not involve a trip to the doctor.Right now, diagnosing the flu is something done at your doctor's office or hospi ...