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Friends star Mike Hagerty died after adverse reaction to an antibiotic

Mike Hagerty, who appeared in US sitcom Friends, fell into a coma and died after having an adverse reaction to an antibiotic

Daily Mirror

Antibiotics can lead to life-threatening fungal infection because of disruption to the gut microbiome – new study

Fungal infections kill around the same number of people each year as tuberculosis. They mostly take hold in people who are vulnerable because they have a defective immune system caused by an underlying disease, such as cancer, or a viral infection, such as HIV or COVID. Our new study shows…

The Conversation

Antibiotic resistance is threatening our health. Will bacterial infection send us back to the medical dark age?

Without new antibiotics, the world is on track to re-enter the medical dark ages by 2050, when a simple cut could kill 10 million people a year. So why are they so hard to find?

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Antibiotic use in Uganda is high: action is needed

Even before the COVID crisis, excessive use and misuse of lifesaving antibiotics had contributed to the emergence of resistant strains of disease-causing organisms. This has rendered many of the most powerful treatments in modern medicine ineffective.

The Conversation

Antibiotic resistance detected in the food chain could have implications for human health, new study finds

Experts believe that antibiotic resistance will become a global problem in the long term, with a new study finding high rates of resistance in samples of salmon and beef.

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Qualigen Takes Stake In NanoSynex To Gain Access To Next-Gen Diagnostic Platform

Qualigen Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:QLGN) has agreed to acquire a majority stake in NanoSynex Ltd, an Israeli-based developer of next-generation diagnostics technology. NanoSynex's Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) platform provides rapid, accurate, and personalized tests for bacterial infections to quickly match the correct antibiotics to treat a patient's particular infection. Antibiotic misuse and overuse have given…

Benzinga

Cut yourself and others some slack: we need more time to experiment and fail at work

In 1928 Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming, while studying the staphylococcus bacteria, noticed mould on his petri dishes inhibited its growth. He experimented, leading to the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.

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Pigs can pass deadly superbugs to people, study reveals

Research into C difficile found antibiotic resistance is growing as a result of overuse on farm stock

The Guardian - UK

Highly contagious marine epidemic rips through Caribbean’s coral reefs

Frustration among scientists as many islands, hard hit by Covid and hurricanes, struggle to fight stony coral tissue loss disease

The Guardian - UK

Hospital drug blunder could have killed our baby son, say angry parents

Community nurse spotted 'potentially fatal' error that would have given Jadon 15 times the normal dose of antibiotic

Wales Online

'Doctors nearly killed my son after he was given 15 times recommended antibiotic dosage'

Gareth Jennings claims his son Jadon had been prescribed the antibiotic drug clindamycin after doctors at Royal Bolton hospital diagnosed him with a bug last Thursday

Daily Mirror

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