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Staying up-to-date has never been simpler. Sign up for the free GenePool newsletter today! 24 May 2013: "A catastrophic threat" is what the Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Dame Sally Davies, called the worrying increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria in her Annual Report.

The key to overcoming antibiotic resistant "superbugs" could be a simple protein found naturally in human breast milk.

A nurse who made a catalogue of errors while she worked at Ayr Hospital has been ordered to be supervised in her work for a year.

Right now we are to fear a new avian influenza virus . Previously there was another avian influenza strain whose outbreak threatened the world and of course SARS and, more distantly, the ebola virus and the threat of bioterrorism .

Writing online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry professor Helen Blackwell describes agents that effectively interfere with the "quorum sensing" behavior of Staphylococcus aureus , a bacterium at the root of a host of human infections ranging from acne to life-threatening ... (more)

Main Category: MRSA / Drug Resistance Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 23 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Bacteria resistant to the antibiotic colistin are also commonly resistant to antimicrobial substances made by the human body, according to a study in mBio , the online open-access journal ... (more)

Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.

If we want a fighting chance against hospital infection, we're going to have to pay our janitors more.

Doctors have nightmares. They're not the usual nightmares of sitting naked in Grade 12 math class being taught by a stegosaurus as your teeth slowly fall out.

A micrograph image of C. difficile bacteria is shown in a handout photo. Hospital-acquired infections such as MRSA and C. difficile remain a problem in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Researchers have found that fibres from the common flax plant can kill bacteria efficiently when treated with special light-sensitive dyes and exposed to red light.

Using reclaimed water to irrigate lawns, parks, gardens, and various other types of landscaping is common in many communities across the U.S., particularly in areas prone to water shortages and drought.

Hospitals in England are not required to officially report infections of a "superbug" capable of resisting our most powerful antibiotics, a BBC investigation has found.

Main Category: Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia Also Included In: MRSA / Drug Resistance ; Alzheimer's / Dementia Article Date: 20 May 2013 - 0:00 PDT Frontiers in Endocrinology Differential roles of orexin receptors in the regulation of sleep/wakefulness Takeshi Sakurai, the lead author on the 1998 article that first described orexin, here ... (more)

When her artificial right hip became infected with the superbug MRSA in late 2009, Dr.

Teas from the husk fiber of Cocos nucifera are used in the folk medicine to treat arthritis and other inflammatory processes.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry ; MRSA / Drug Resistance Article Date: 16 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Bacteria are life forms, which, like all other life forms, struggle for the best living conditions for themselves.

On May 13, 2013, Trius Therapeutics announced that it had received a notice of allowance from the USPTO for a patent application relating to the use of its tedizolid phosphate antibiotic in combination with Cubist Pharmaceutical's antibiotic Cubicin .

Research by Anglia Ruskin microbiologist shows danger of antibiotic-resistant bacteria New research published this week in the Journal of Medical Microbiology highlights the danger posed to diabetic patients by the deadly superbug Acinetobacter baumannii .