http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Despite numerous advances in treating infections and disease, effective treatments for sepsis remain elusive. A new discovery published in the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal not only could help health care providers predict who is more and less likely to develop sepsis, but it also opens the doors to new therapies that actually address the root cause of the problem, rather than just managing the symptoms. This also has the potential to benefit patients suffering from influenza and other viral infections, as well as chronic inflammatory diseases such as periodontal disease, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-discovery-rapid-diagnosis-treatment-sepsis.html Medical research Thu, 30 May 2013 10:40:05 EST news289129197 Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-disinfecting-robots-superbug-infections-hopkins.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:30:01 EST news276519308 Infection control experts at The Johns Hopkins Hospital have found that a combination of robot-like devices that disperse a bleaching agent into the air and then detoxify the disinfecting chemical are highly effective at killing and preventing the spread of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria, or so-called hospital superbugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-hospital-disinfection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:41:37 EST news276248484 Career paths can start to take shape in many unexpected ways. For UCLA physician Daniel Uslan, it all started in a class for kids called "It's a Small World." That's when the five-year-old made sourdough bread with his father. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-superbugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:51:28 EST news269157081 Even a very good wastewater treatment plant can't clean up fragments of superbugs -- bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics -- and until now, almost no one has noticed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-wastewater-treatment-filter-superbug-fragments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:30:01 EST news241086244 The European Union warned Thursday of a sharp rise in deaths across the 27-nation bloc due to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-eu-alarm-resistance-antibiotics.html Medications Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:10:01 EST news240768349 Drugs fed to animals to promote growth and prevent diseases may play a key role in the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria, microbiologists said Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-drugs-fed-animals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:46:08 EST news235622757 (Medical Xpress) -- Antibiotic use in conventional animal food production in the United States has created public health concern because it has been shown to contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can potentially spread to humans. A new study, led by Dr. Amy R. Sapkota of the University of Maryland School of Public Health, provides data demonstrating that poultry farms that have transitioned from conventional to organic practices and ceased using antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant enterococci bacteria. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-poultry-farms-significantly-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.html Medical research Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:00:03 EST news232163505 Hospitals struggle to prevent the infections that complicate treatment for cancer, joint replacement, heart surgery and other conditions. Hospital-acquired infections are often resistant to multiple antibiotics, leading to approximately 100,000 deaths and more than $30 billion in additional health care costs yearly. New drugs are being developed to combat these infections, but resistance invariably emerges to these last-line drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-insight-drug-resistance-hospital-microbes.html Medical research Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:29:37 EST news229789767 New research from the Trudeau Institute may help to explain why anticoagulant therapies have largely failed to extend the lives of patients with sepsis. The study was led by Deyan Luo, a postdoctoral fellow in Stephen Smiley's laboratory. It shows that fibrin, a key product of the blood clotting process, is critical for host defense against Yersinia enterocolitica, a gram-negative bacterium that causes sepsis in humans and experimental mice. The new data will be published in the August 15 issue of The Journal of Immunology and is available now online ahead of print. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-discovery-sepsis.html Medical research Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:36:24 EST news229606573 A new technique which targets antibiotic-resistant bacteria and shields patients from the toxic parts of an antibiotic drug has been developed by Cardiff University scientists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-drug-shield-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria.html Medical research Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:51:33 EST news229261865