http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Heiman Wertheim and Arjun Chandna from Oxford University and colleagues describe the launch and impact of VINARES, an initiative to strengthen antimicrobial stewardship in Viet Nam, which may be instructive for other countries struggling to address the threat of antimicrobial resistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-antimicrobial-resistance-vietnam.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 May 2013 17:00:11 EST news287160306 Despite the desperate need for new antibiotics to combat increasingly deadly resistant bacteria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved only one new systemic antibiotic since the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) launched its 10 x '20 Initiative in 2010—and that drug was approved two and a half years ago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-superbug-crisis-antibiotic-alarmingly-elusive.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EST news285436359 Resistance to antibiotics is a 'catastrophic' global threat and should be ranked alongside terrorism as one of the biggest risks Britain faces, the government's chief medical officer said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-antibiotics-resistance-catastrophic-global-threat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:50:01 EST news282241492 Antibiotic resistance "has the potential to undermine modern health systems," argue health economists Richard Smith and Joanna Coast on bmj.com today. They believe that an increase in resistant organisms coupled with a big fall in the number of new antimicrobial drugs "suggests an apocalyptic scenario may be looming." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-antibiotic-resistance-potential-undermine-modern.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:59:09 EST news282225543 Treatment with a newer antibiotic, tedizolid phosphate, once daily for 6 days was statistically noninferior (no worse than) in efficacy to the antibiotic linezolid twice daily for 10 days for both early (at day 2 to 3) and sustained (at day 11) clinical responses in patients with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, according to a study appearing in the February 13 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-shorter-course-antibiotic-similar-effectiveness-skin.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:30:02 EST news279906626 (HealthDay)—Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) isolates from U.S. inpatients are becoming increasingly resistant to antimicrobial agents, according to a study published in the January issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-antimicrobial-resistance-pneumoniae-isolates.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:40:01 EST news275228930 A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control reports of a phenomenon that could help control the spread of hospital-acquired infections: a surface-coating of metalloacids kills off microbial strains, even in multidrug-resistant microorganisms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-metals-microbes-biocidal-effect-metalloacid-coated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:00:03 EST news272047476 WASHINGTON, District of Columbia (April 30, 2012) – In a surveillance study of over 12 million bacteria, investigators at The George Washington University and Providence Hospital found E. coli antimicrobial resistance to ciprofloxacin, the most commonly prescribed antimicrobial for urinary tract infections in the U.S., increased over five-fold from 2000 to 2010. In addition, nearly one in four isolates in 2010 were resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim®), the second most commonly prescribed drug for this infection. This research was published in the April edition of the journal, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-antimicrobial-resistance-common-urinary-tract.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:00:01 EST news255016165 Combining common antibiotics with additional compounds could make previously resistant bacteria more susceptible to the same antibiotics. 'Resuscitation' of existing antibiotics has the potential to make infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria easier to control, reducing antibiotic usage and levels of antimicrobial resistance, say scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in Dublin this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-resuscitating-antibiotics-drug-resistance.html Medications Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:25:40 EST news252123929