Americans are known to overeat, abuse credit cards, marinate for hours in social media, and break New Year’s resolutions before the end of January. Self-discipline doesn’t seem to be a national strength. And achieving self-discipline – and the success that can come with it – may never have been harder than it is in this… Continue reading Lacking Self-Discipline? 5 Ways to Develop It and Reach Your Goals
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Antibiotics Are Commonly Over-Prescribed for Urological Procedures
Antibiotics are being overused in up to 50 percent of patients who undergo routine urological procedures, a new study shows. The study, led by Daniel Livorsi, MD, University of Iowa assistant professor of internal medicine, shows that the overuse was mostly due to extended use of antibiotics following the procedure. The findings were published Dec.… Continue reading Antibiotics Are Commonly Over-Prescribed for Urological Procedures
Managing Antibiotics Not Enough to Reverse Resistance
Merely reducing antibiotic use will not be enough to reverse the growing prevalence of antibiotic resistance to some types of bacteria, researchers say. Besides passing along the genes bestowing antibiotic resistance to their offspring, many bacteria can also swap genes among themselves through a process called conjugation. There has long been a debate, however, as… Continue reading Managing Antibiotics Not Enough to Reverse Resistance
Exercise and Breast-Cancer Drugs
Breast-cancer patients who are taking hormone-therapy drugs known as aromatase inhibitors (AIs) can improve their health outcome through a combination of resistance and aerobic exercise, according to a researcher from Syracuse University. Gwendolyn Thomas, assistant professor of exercise science , is the co-author of a groundbreaking article in the Obesity Journal (The Obesity Society, 2017)… Continue reading Exercise and Breast-Cancer Drugs
Environment A Factor in Antibiotic Resistance?
Since the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, health officials have warned people about the dangers of overusing antibiotics. Now, though, research shows that that there may be another reason for antibiotic resistance: environmental contamination. The University of Georgia’s J. Vaun McArthur , a senior research ecologist with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Odum School of… Continue reading Environment A Factor in Antibiotic Resistance?
Antibiotics In Food Can Affect Patients
Scientists are saying that hospitals should combat the spread of antibiotic resistance by refusing to buy meat from animals that were given antibiotics for growth promotion. For the last two years, University of California San Francisco Medical Center has been phasing out meat from animals that were routinely fed antibiotics, and now nearly a third… Continue reading Antibiotics In Food Can Affect Patients
Study: Wealthier People Get More Antibiotics
Doctors, retail medical clinics and urgent care centers appear to be locked in a battle for patients, and that means they’re prescribing increasing numbers of antibiotics, according to a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers. “We found that both the number of physicians per capita and the number of clinics are significant drivers of antibiotic… Continue reading Study: Wealthier People Get More Antibiotics
A New Discovery About a Wonder Drug
Researchers have discovered a new way in which the wonder drug penicillin fights infections. Penicillin, discovered in 1928, works by attacking enzymes that build the bacterial wall cell. Once the medicine gets through that wall, the bacteria die. Over the years, though, resistance to antibiotics has developed and is now a serious health threat. But… Continue reading A New Discovery About a Wonder Drug