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Published November 19, 2008, 9:12 pm, MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency
BEIJING, Nov 20 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists are attempting to keep milk free of chemical residues by using herbal medicines, rather than antibiotics or hormones, to treat bacterial infections in cows and increase their milk production.
Three MRSA cases at Stony Brook U. are unrelated, docs say
Published November 19, 2008, 7:00 pm, Newsday
Three cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - MRSA - diagnosed in Stony Brook University students in recent weeks are epidemiologically unrelated, doctors said Wednesday.
The MRSA mess: a culture of resistence
Published November 19, 2008, 5:07 pm, Seattle Times
A sloppy, uneven response by some hospitals has failed to confront the MRSA infection or adequately inform the public.
FDA panel splits on pair of antibiotics
Published November 19, 2008, 4:33 pm, The Post-Standard
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal health advisers on Wednesday backed the benefits of an experimental antibiotic but rebuffed another, questioning whether it would be able to fight dangerous staph infections that are becoming increasingly common.
FDA panel splits on pair of antibiotics
Published November 19, 2008, 4:06 pm, San Francisco Chronicle
Federal health advisers on Wednesday backed the benefits of an experimental antibiotic but rebuffed another, questioning whether it would be able to fight dangerous staph infections that are becoming increasingly common. A panel of infection experts assembled...
How Washington hospitals unleashed a MRSA epidemic
Published November 19, 2008, 2:33 pm, PhysOrg
Year after year, the number of victims climbed. But even as casualties mounted - as the germ grew stronger and spread inside hospitals - the toll remained hidden from the public, and hospitals ignored simple steps to control the threat.
Theravance Wins U.S. Panel’s Backing for Antibiotic (Update3)
Published November 19, 2008, 1:31 pm, Bloomberg
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Theravance Inc. won a U.S. panel’s backing to introduce a new drug for hard-to-treat skin infections such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA , which kills almost 19,000 Americans a year.
Theravance Reports Favorable Outcome of FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Telavancin for the Treatment of Complicated ...
Published November 19, 2008, 11:40 am, Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance
Theravance, Inc. announced today that telavancin received a favorable recommendation from the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the proposed indication to treat complicated skin and skin structure infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, including resistant pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. The Committee voted ...
Preventing Super Bug Infections
Published November 19, 2008, 10:19 am, Carteret County News-Times
(ARA) - Each year more than a million patients in the United States develop infections caused by deadly super bugs that have developed resistance to the antibiotics normally used to treat them.
Awareness campaign takes aim at doctors’ over-prescription of antibiotics
Published November 19, 2008, 10:13 am, Radio Prague
The European Union marked its first-ever European Antibiotic Awareness Day on Tuesday, part of a campaign to tackle the over-prescription of antibiotics. The Czech Republic, while not the worst offender, saw a significant rise in the number of prescriptions in the 1990s. Now it is trying to encourage patients to choose a good rest and tea when ill, rather than appealing to their doctor for ...
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