Antibiotic resistance countered
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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A new antibiotic shows promise, thus far in mice, for treating tuberculosis much faster than current drugs do, scientists report. Additional evidence indicates that the antibiotic may work against multidrug-resistant strains of the tuberculosis bug.
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Scientists say initial studies show promising results for a vaccine which could combat a common type of bacteria.
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If antibiotic succeeds in testing, it would be the 1st new treatment for the disease in 41 years. WASHINGTON -- A novel type of antibiotic has been shown in laboratory tests to powerfully attack and control
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An antibiotic often used in hospital intensive care units to treat serious staph infections resistant to other medicines may cause a sometimes-fatal bleeding condition, researchers said on Wednesday.
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It may be possible to save more lives by reversing drug resistance in lung cancer patients, say scientists.
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A key anti-HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors&#39; orders
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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Scientists have shown that a common antibiotic can turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments for cancer patients.
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UK researchers claim to have  found a way to make the hospital 'superbug' vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
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WASHINGTON: World Health Organisation and US medical experts warn that the increasing ability of bacteria to resist antibiotics threatens the existing arsenal of drugs against dangerous infectious diseases.
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NEW YORK  - In Hawaii, the proportion of  cases of gonorrhea that are resistant to treatment with the  antibiotic Cipro increased nearly sevenfold between 1997 and  2000, new findings show.
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Hospitals across the Washington region are mounting increasingly aggressive defenses against a virulent bacterium resistant to antibiotics that turns seemingly minor skin abrasions, cuts and sores into serious, even life-threatening, infections.
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An antibiotic could treat TB much faster than current drugs and beat problems of resistance, researchers hope.
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In Hawaii, the proportion of cases of gonorrhea that are resistant to treatment with the antibiotic Cipro increased nearly sevenfold between 1997 and 2000, new findings show.
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Antibiotics could one day be used for  more than killing bacteria and may help patients suffering from  neurological diseases, scientists said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - An effort to change doctors' prescribing habits for antibiotics and to educate parents of small children about the proper use of antibiotics was only moderately successful at curbing antibiotic use, Boston researchers report.