Health
Advancing mother-child health globally: One researcher's efforts
Globally, five million children die annually before the age of 5. Forty percent of these deaths are in the first month, and many are preventable.
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News tagged with drug resistance
Oncology & Cancer
UPR-induced ovarian cancer cell fusion: A mechanism favoring drug resistance?
A new editorial paper was published in Oncoscience, titled, "UPR-induced ovarian cancer cell fusion: a mechanism favoring drug resistance?"
May 26, 2023
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Medications
New treatment for human parasitic worm infections shows high efficacy
Soil-transmitted helminth infections are caused by different species of parasitic worms, including whipworms, hookworms and roundworms. Worldwide, more than 1.5 billion people are infected with at least one soil-transmitted ...
May 17, 2023
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Medications
Novel antibiotic succeeds in trial against hospital-acquired pneumonia
A Rutgers researcher leading a trial found that the novel combination antibiotic sulbactam-durlobactam combats dangerous pneumonia at least as well as the best currently approved treatment.
May 16, 2023
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Medications
Psychedelic therapies for some mental illnesses will soon be legal, but experts still have questions
On 3 February 2023, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) made a surprising announcement. From 1 July, authorized psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...
May 15, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A dangerous eye infection from tainted eye drops, months before the CDC's warning
In February 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned people against using EzriCare eye drops because bottles of the product had been linked to drug-resistant bacterial infections causing vision ...
May 11, 2023
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Medical research
Study identifies new treatment target for metastatic cancer
A new University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study reveals more about changes that happen to cancer cells when they metastasize and identifies a promising target for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
May 9, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Clouds carry drug-resistant bacteria across distances: study
For a team of Canadian and French researchers, dark clouds on the horizon are potentially ominous not because they signal an approaching storm—but because they were found in a recent study to carry drug-resistant bacteria ...
Apr 29, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers image live drug response and resistant 'pockets' in pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer drug response and resistance has been uncovered in unprecedented detail, thanks to a research tool developed at the Garvan Institute.
Apr 28, 2023
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Medical economics
EU unveils reforms for cheaper drugs and to avoid shortages
The EU on Wednesday unveiled a long-awaited proposed reform of legislation governing pharmaceutical drugs to make them cheaper, prevent shortages and boost new antibiotic production.
Apr 26, 2023
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Drug resistance
Drug resistance is the reduction in effectiveness of a drug in curing a disease or improving a patient's symptoms. When the drug is not intended to kill or inhibit a pathogen, then the term is equivalent to dosage failure or drug tolerance. More commonly, the term is used in the context of diseases caused by pathogens.
Pathogens are said to be drug-resistant when drugs meant to neutralize them have reduced effect. When an organism is resistant to more than one drug, it is said to be multidrug resistant.
Drug resistance is an example of evolution in microorganisms. Individuals that are not susceptible to the drug effects are capable of surviving drug treatment, and therefore have greater fitness than susceptible individuals. By the process of natural selection, drug resistant traits are selected for in subsequent offspring, resulting in a population that is drug resistant.
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