Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: deadly bacteria http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Novel approaches needed to end growing scourge of 'superbugs' With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan. 24 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine called for novel approaches based on a "reconceptualization of the nature of resistance, disease and prevention." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-approaches-scourge-superbugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:30:17 EST news278184610 UCLA study to determine if copper surfaces can reduce hospital-acquired infections Hospital-acquired infections are a huge public health burden, and hospital environments play a key role in harboring potentially deadly bacteria such as E. coli, C. difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ucla-copper-surfaces-hospital-acquired-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:03:30 EST news261057780 Gov't to speed tracking of E. coli in meat (AP) -- The government plans to speed up the process for testing E. coli in meat, a move that will help authorities more quickly track the source of the deadly bacteria and hasten recalls. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-govt-tracking-coli-meat.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 May 2012 13:50:02 EST news255179494 No anthrax vaccine testing on children -- for now Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-anthrax-vaccine-children-.html Medications Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:18:27 EST news239084294 Gov't considers testing anthrax vaccine in kids A government advisory panel is considering whether the anthrax vaccine should be tested in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-govt-anthrax-vaccine-kids.html Medications Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:20:17 EST news239026802 Experts: Seeds tainted by E. coli still out there (AP) -- Health experts warned Thursday there could be more E. coli cases across Europe and elsewhere after finding that recent deadly outbreaks were probably linked to contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-experts-seeds-tainted-coli.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:30:05 EST news228652198 New discovery in battle against plague and bacterial pneumonias Researchers from the Smiley lab at the Trudeau Institute have now identified a single component of the plague causing bacterium that can be used as a vaccine. This single "subunit" could potentially be used to create a safer form of a T cell-stimulating plague vaccine. The new data is featured in the July issue of The Journal of Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-discovery-plague-bacterial-pneumonias.html Medical research Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:30:22 EST news228389412