News tagged with broad spectrum


Minocycline, an antibiotic, improves behavior for children with fragile X syndrome

Minocycline, an older, broad-spectrum antibiotic in the tetracycline family, provides meaningful improvements as a therapeutic for children with fragile X syndrome, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute has ...

Pediatrics created Apr 08, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover how deadly skin cancer spreads into other parts of the body

After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have made another important discovery in ...

Cancer created Jan 03, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover origins of a bacterial strain that causes severe clostridium difficile infection

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified the origin of an epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile (027) and its mode of spread using tagging genetic signatures in the ...

Genetics created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study finds that closeness with either parent has behavioral, emotional benefits for a child

(Medical Xpress)—Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hormone plays surprise role in fighting skin infections

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited with a role in their production and in the body's overall immune response, ...

Medical research created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify potential target for anthrax drug

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified new targets for drugs that could potentially treat anthrax, the deadly infection caused by Bacillus anthracis.

Medical research created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inner weapons against allergies: Gut bacteria control allergic diseases

When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within ...

Immunology created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers building melanoma vaccine to combat skin cancer

Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a cousin of the rabies virus. The strategy, called cancer immunotherapy, ...

Cancer created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows massage reduces inflammation following strenuous exercise

Most athletes can testify to the pain-relieving, recovery-promoting effects of massage. Now there's a scientific basis that supports booking a session with a massage therapist: On the cellular level massage reduces inflammation ...

Health created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Look for new, improved sunscreen labels

(HealthDay)—New labeling laws for sunscreen will help American consumers choose the product that provides the best sun protection, experts say.

Health created May 10, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ranibizumab may prevent retinal detachment side effect

Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), or the formation of scar tissue in the eye, is a serious, sight-threatening complication in people recovering from surgical repair of retinal detachment. PVR is difficult to predict, ...

Ophthalmology created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Black children less likely to be prescribed antibiotics

(HealthDay)—Black children are less likely to be prescribed antibiotics and to be diagnosed with conditions that require antibiotics, even when treated by the same doctor, according to research published ...

Pediatrics created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Readmissions frequent in month after hospital discharge

Following hospitalization for heart attacks, heart failure, or pneumonia, patients are at high risk of being readmitted for a broad spectrum of medical conditions in the month following hospital discharge, research at Yale ...

Health created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inadequate food facilities in NC migrant camps could cause illness

Farmworkers are at potential risk from food and waterborne illnesses because of the condition of cooking and eating facilities available to them, according to a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Health created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Screening the sun: We still need to cover up, researchers say

(Medical Xpress)—Covering up and staying out of the sun for prolonged periods of time, especially in the middle of the day, is still the best way to protect ourselves from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation, ...

Cancer created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1