http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous type of bacteria that is becoming increasingly common in U.S. hospitals. This study is being posted online today and will appear in the journal's February print edition. http://www.physorg.com/news180786273.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:00:01 EST news180786273 (PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, Chicago hospitals were at ground zero when the deadly MRSA bacterium, till then confined to hospitals, learned some new tricks and spilled out into the community. This year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago are teaming up to develop a unique new computer model to understand how the bacteria spread across Chicago -- and how it might be prevented from spreading further. http://www.physorg.com/news179427007.html Medicine & Health Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:00:02 EST news179427007 Researchers have characterised a new multi drug resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that is causing life-threatening disease in Africa. http://www.physorg.com/news178826947.html Biology Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:13:07 EST news178826947 Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The new monitoring system is expected to speed up what is currently a slow and cumbersome process to test the safety and efficacy of various TB drug regimens and vaccines in animals. Plans are already under way for developing a similar system to monitor TB disease in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news167503263.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:50:02 EST news167503263 Clarithromycin resistance is an uncommon occurrence among Malaysian isolates of Helicobacter pylori strains, and the mutations A2142G and A2143G detected were associated with low-level resistance. http://www.physorg.com/news166960227.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:57:05 EST news166960227 (AP) -- U.S. health officials are stepping up testing of swine flu cases for Tamiflu resistance, now that an American has come down with a resistant strain. http://www.physorg.com/news166211083.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:44:57 EST news166211083 Hong Kong on Friday detected a strain of swine flu that was resistant to Tamiflu, the main anti-viral flu drug, the health department reported on its website. http://www.physorg.com/news165838077.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:40:01 EST news165838077 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication - if used early in local outbreaks - could extend the effectiveness of primary drug stockpiles, according to research made available April 30 ahead of publication in PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160666388.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 May 2009 14:33:45 EST news160666388 The World Health Organization released staggering new data about the threat of tuberculosis and the toll it takes on people with HIV/AIDS today, in recognition of World TB Day. http://www.physorg.com/news157125569.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:00:09 EST news157125569 (AP) -- South Africa is trying a new approach to controlling drug-resistant tuberculosis - treating people at home rather than in isolation hospitals surrounded by barbed wire and baton-wielding guards, health officials said Monday . http://www.physorg.com/news157032843.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:14:39 EST news157032843 Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and The University of Pittsburgh have developed an onsite method to quickly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and expose the deadly drug-resistant strains that can mingle undetected with treatable TB strains. This study will be published in PLoS ONE, a peer-reviewed online journal from the Public Library of Science. http://www.physorg.com/news156687183.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:13:34 EST news156687183 Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are developing a new generation of antibiotic compounds that do not provoke bacterial resistance. The compounds work against two notorious microbes: Vibrio cholerae, which causes cholera; and E. coli 0157:H7, the food contaminant that each year in the U.S. causes approximately 110,000 illnesses and 50 deaths. http://www.physorg.com/news156174057.html Chemistry Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:44:40 EST news156174057 As bacteria resistant to commonly used antibiotics continue to increase in number, scientists keep searching for new sources of drugs. In this week's JBC, one potential new bactericide has been found in the tiny freshwater animal Hydra. http://www.physorg.com/news151261559.html Biology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:05:59 EST news151261559 Influenza's ability to resist the effects of cheap and popular antiviral agents in Asia and Russia should serve as a cautionary tale about U.S. plans to use the antiviral Tamiflu in the event of widespread avian flu infection in humans, scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news150558036.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:36 EST news150558036 Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a team of researchers report. But the investigators highlight the proven superiority of the six-week regimen in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in breast-fed infants. http://www.physorg.com/news150389022.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:43:42 EST news150389022