http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Every so often, research laboratories and hospitals testing patients for the superbug methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have come across an oddity: a strain that appeared to be MRSA because it was resistant to antibiotics but one that tested negative with the 'gold standard' molecular test. The quirky cases were so infrequent that they were usually filed away for future analysis or disregarded. Until, that is, PhD student Laura Garcia-Alvarez from Cambridge's Department of Veterinary Medicine had the tenacity to look a little further at a bacterial strain she had spotted in cows' milk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-superbugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:10:01 EST news280054477 (HealthDay) -- It goes without saying that bites from venomous snakes can be painful and dangerous, but they can also be very expensive, an expert warns. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-snakebite-therapy-victims-wallets.html Health Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:50:01 EST news254458028 A Kansas State University veterinary medicine student is investigating ways to improve horse vaccinations and defend them against pathogen challenges at an early age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-equine-health-vaccinations-newborn-foals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:22:06 EST news252757314 Bacteria that cause the main food-borne infections among people in the European Union commonly show resistance to widely-used antibiotics and antimicrobials, an EU report showed Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-resistant-food-bacteria-strains-common.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:55 EST news250945242 An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The work shows for the first time the feasibility and therapeutic efficacy of this alternative cell-based vaccine, which could be employed in the treatment of a number of different cancer types. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-efficacy-non-hodgkin-lymphoma-vaccine.html Cancer Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:26:35 EST news238170373 Veterinary medicine students are more likely to struggle with depression than human medicine students, undergraduate students and the general population, according to several recent collaborative studies from Kansas State University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-veterinary-medicine-students-higher-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:09:02 EST news231070130