Veterinary antibiotics: Europe wants to limit their use
Faced with the proliferation of resistant bacteria, the European Parliament has proposed a bill aimed at restricting the use of ...
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A biological dressing reduces the mortality of severe burns
A Swiss team from Lausanne has developed a biological dressing that would prevent infections, the main cause of death in ...
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Antibiotic resistance: 25,000 deaths per year in Europe
This time the threat is real. Antibiotic resistance is common and causes 25,000 deaths per year. 60% of Campylobacter strains ...
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Childhood malnutrition: MSF questions the systematic use of antibiotics
A study conducted by MSF shows that systematic antibiotic therapy does not provide significant benefit in the treatment of malnourished ...
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A blood test to determine if antibiotics are needed
This test would be able to distinguish a viral infection from a bacterial infection. It should help fight against the ...
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Urinary tract infections: ibuprofen could replace antibiotics
Ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory drug, can heal a urinary tract infection faster than a common antibiotic, fosfomycin. But the symptoms are ...
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Chinese locate gene resistant to last-resort antibiotics
Chinese researchers have discovered a gene that makes last-resort antibiotics ineffective. Fears that treatable infections could kill again are returning.While ...
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Antibiotic resistance: an interministerial delegate soon to work
To lead the fight against antibiotic resistance, an interministerial delegate must be appointed. It will coordinate the action of 8 ...
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Antibiotic resistance: citizens are unaware of the dangers
Populations around the world have misperceptions of antimicrobial resistance, which reinforces the health threat. Antibiotic resistance threatens all populations of ...
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Antibiotics: Macrolides may be prescribed during pregnancy
The use of penicillins and macrolides during pregnancy does not present any risk of malformation in the baby. They can ...
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Childhood obesity: antibiotics increase the risks
Antibiotics during childhood may promote weight gain until adulthood. Results obtained by following 160,000 children for over ten years.While the ...
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Antibiotic resistance threatens hospital care
If nothing is done to fight bacterial resistance to antibiotics, the most common surgical operations can no longer be performed.Bacterial ...
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Antibiotics: the ANSM warns about the adverse effects of quinolones
Following numerous reports, the French drug agency wishes to recall the adverse effects of quinolones, widely prescribed antibiotics. Quinolones should ...
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Azithromycin: an antibiotic that could cure the coronavirus
© Getty Images / iStockphotoThree general practitioners who practice in Moselle and the North have tested a new treatment on ...
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Antibiotic resistance: the environment pointed out
To fight against antibiotic resistance, a report submitted to Marisol Touraine emphasizes the importance of the link between the environment ...
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Antibiotics: how the French consume
The consumption of antibiotics in France is particularly high, especially among women. Respiratory infections are the primary reason for prescribing. ...
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Antibiotics: a new technique to overcome bacterial resistance
By using the different types of antibiotics at a precise rotation rate, it would be possible to prevent the development ...
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Antibiotics: British doctors threatened with sanctions
A leader of the British health system wants to put in place sanctions against doctors who prescribe too many antibiotics.Punish ...
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Antibiotic resistance: a technique that targets and kills refractory bacteria
© Getty ImagesKill bacteria that are multi-resistant to antibiotics, without destroying those beneficial to the body. This is the function ...
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Appendicitis: treatment with antibiotics is proven
France performed more than 80,000 appendectomies in 2013. The simple forms could be treated with antibiotics, according to a study. ...
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Antibiotic resistance: WHO sounds the alert
Governments have not taken enough action to fight antibiotic resistance, according to the WHO, which calls for urgent measures.It is ...
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Urinary tract infections: cranberries as effective as antibiotics
Scientists have shown that capsules made from cranberry extracts can effectively prevent urinary tract infections in women.What if cranberries were ...
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Infectious diseases: fake drugs threaten decades of progress
According to an American study, fake drugs or those of poor quality undermine decades of progress against AIDS, malaria or ...
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Platypus milk, a way to fight antibiotic resistance
© iStockA duck bill, a beaver tail, webbed legs ... The platypus is definitely a funny animal. To the list ...
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Superbacteria could cost $ 100,000 billion in 2050
By 2050 antibiotic resistance could cost one and a half times the global GDP per year, according to a British ...
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Antibiotics: France, European champion of consumption
A report by three European agencies compares European antibiotic consumption in humans and animals. France holds the top of the ...
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Leprosy: increasingly contagious patients
For the past ten years, the number of new cases of leprosy has stagnated. The sick are more and more ...
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A new antibiotic effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria
Researchers have developed a technique to produce many antibiotics that do not cause resistance from bacteria, according to a study ...
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Multidrug resistant bacteria: software to anticipate their mutations
In order to fight against "super-bacteria", a team of researchers has developed an algorithm that predicts their mutations.The “super-bacteria” pose ...
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Antibiotics: France is the 4th largest consumer in Europe
The prescription of antibiotics in France is 41% higher than the European average, according to a new report from the ...
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