A new study suggests that E. coli from meat products may be responsible for hundreds of thousands of urinary tract infections in the U.S. each year.
Mar 24, 2023
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A team led by Purdue University's Bruce Applegate has developed a new time-saving assay to detect an especially severe strain of E. coli in ground beef.
Mar 1, 2023
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Imagine a horse race, where the winner takes it all and is awarded both food and protection against enemies. In the same way, bacteria compete with one another in the gut of newborn babies.
Jan 19, 2023
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Two factors contribute to the lung disease bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD, in extremely premature infants: the high oxygen concentrations that premature infants need to aid their breathing and a microbial dysbiosis in ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Bacteria in our guts play a significant role in how we digest what we eat, and what we eat includes oral medications we take. But the gut microbiome's impact on drugs may be different from its impact on food because drugs ...
Nov 8, 2022
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After years of progress in the battle against antimicrobial-resistance, so-called "superbugs" have made a concerning comeback in the age of COVID, with resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths soaring at least 15% in ...
Aug 15, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to toughen regulations on certain raw chicken products.
Aug 1, 2022
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Nearly one-third of ground chicken may contain dangerous salmonella, a new Consumer Reports investigation shows.
Jul 1, 2022
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New research, published in Gastroenterology, builds the case that a Western-style diet—rich in red and processed meat, sugar and refined grains/carbohydrates—is tied to higher risk of colorectal cancer through the intestinal ...
Jun 27, 2022
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A research team led by Professor Kelvin Yeung Wai-kwok from the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has designed a non-invasive ...
Jun 20, 2022
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