MRSA / Drug Resistance News From Medical News Today
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5 Feb 2010 at 2:00am
A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS...
4 Feb 2010 at 3:00am
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...
28 Jan 2010 at 2:00am
Taxanes, a group of cancer drugs that includes paclitaxel (Taxol®) and docetaxel (Taxotere®), have become front-line therapy for a variety of metastatic cancers. But as with many chemotherapy agents, resistance can develop, a frequent problem in breast, ovarian, prostate and other cancers...
28 Jan 2010 at 2:00am
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Israel's Weizman Institute of Science have found that two antibiotics working together might be more effective in fighting pathogenic bacteria than either drug on its own...
26 Jan 2010 at 5:00am
An international team of researchers has used high resolution genome sequencing to track a particularly virulent strain of MRSA as it traveled between South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. The findings shed light on how these deadly bacteria are able to spread from patient to patient in a single hospital and, on a larger scale of geography and time, between countries and entire continents...
25 Jan 2010 at 4:00am
"Scientists have found a way to track minutely-differing strains of the 'superbug' MRSA [methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus] as they spread between people and across the globe, a finding that could aid efforts to control the deadly bacteria," Reuters/ABC News reports (Kelland, 1/21)...
25 Jan 2010 at 4:00am
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a gene activity signature that predicts a high risk of cancer recurrence in certain breast tumors that have been treated with commonly used chemotherapy drugs...
25 Jan 2010 at 3:00am
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...
23 Jan 2010 at 2:00am
For the first time, researchers have shown how transmission of MRSA from one person to another can be precisely tracked in a hospital setting. The team have developed a remarkable new method that can 'zoom' from large-scale inter-continental transmission events to the much finer detail of person-to-person infection of MRSA within a single hospital...
22 Jan 2010 at 6:00pm
Norwegian hospitals have received considerable attention in the news media this month due to their successful anti-MRSA efforts, and this coverage could be helpful to the diagnostics industry, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information...
21 Jan 2010 at 7:00am
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have discovered a novel class of compounds that, in experiments in vitro, inhibit replication of the virus responsible for hepatitis C...
20 Jan 2010 at 4:00am
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...
18 Jan 2010 at 2:00am
The emergence of drug-resistant strains of HIV could one day threaten efforts to control the global HIV pandemic, according to a study published online Thursday in the journal Science, HealthDay News/U.S. News & World Report reports...
16 Jan 2010 at 3:00am
More than 13,000 healthcare-associated infections illnesses that often can be prevented were reported by Pennsylvania hospitals in the second half of 2008, according to initial data released today by the Department of Health. Such infections, also known as HAIs, are illnesses that patients acquire as a result of being in the hospital and did not have prior to admission...
16 Jan 2010 at 2:00am
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that three scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named recipients of the 2010 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards. The grant of $450,000 over three years is awarded each year to early career scientists whose projects have the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer...
