Visiting abroad in the coming year? Antibiotics becoming less effective against traveler's diarrhea, study warns
Planning some international travel as one of your New Year's resolutions?
Dec 30, 2025
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Heterocyclic Compounds: News and Research on Quinolines
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Antibiotic delafloxacin emerges as a potential therapeutic alternative against Legionella
A study led by researchers at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) shows, in an experimental laboratory model, that delafloxacin inhibits the intracellular replication of Legionella more effectively than one ...
Dec 17, 2025
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Pesticides and other common chemical pollutants are toxic to 'good' gut bacteria, lab-based screening indicates
A large-scale laboratory screening of human-made chemicals has identified 168 chemicals that are toxic to bacteria found in the healthy human gut. These chemicals stifle the growth of gut bacteria thought to be vital for ...
Nov 26, 2025
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From antibiotics to antimalarials: How repurposed drugs might keep cancer from returning
Many cancer survivors live with the worry that their cancer might come back. This "recurrence" occurs when cancer cells hide somewhere in the body—like in the bone marrow—and start growing again, sometimes years later. Scientists ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Conflict at the drugstore: When pharmacists' and patients' values collide
Imagine walking into your pharmacy, handing over your prescription and having it denied. Now imagine that the reason is not insufficient insurance coverage or the wrong dose, but a pharmacist who personally objects to your ...
Oct 6, 2025
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Immune cells in the brain help shape adolescent neural circuits
Making a smoothie, going for an evening walk, or having empathy for a loved one are all examples of executive functions that are controlled by the brain's frontal cortex. This area of the brain goes through profound change ...
Aug 26, 2025
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Common painkillers linked to antibiotic resistance
New research from the University of South Australia shows that ibuprofen and acetaminophen are quietly fueling one of the world's biggest health threats: antibiotic resistance.
Aug 26, 2025
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Bubonic plague treatment proven highly effective and safe in world's first trial
Researchers from the U.K. and Madagascar, in collaboration with Madagascar's health services and national plague program, have conducted the world's first rigorous clinical trial of treatments for bubonic plague.
Aug 7, 2025
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New use for old drug: Study finds potential of heart drug for treating growth disorders
Bone growth occurs through the proliferation of specialized cells of the cartilage tissue, known as chondrocytes, on either end of a bone. This process requires the synthesis of extracellular matrix (ECM) in the bone growth ...
Jun 17, 2025
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Stateville prison malaria research reexamined: Scholars pull back curtain on untold story of Black prisoners
Much attention has been paid to malaria research conducted on inmates at Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary and the fraught ethical issues that the carceral studies raised. Stateville inmates were infected with the potentially ...
Jun 11, 2025
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