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Novel Therapies Could Improve Potency Of Existing AIDS Treatments, Help To Combat Drug-Resistant Virus Strains A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS... ...more	05 Feb 2010
Research Fellowship To Halt Super Bug Invasion, Australia A new Queensland Government Fellowship presented today by the Governor of Queensland will be used by a researcher to try to combat an extreme super bug even more aggressive than resistant Staphylococcus strains... ...more	04 Feb 2010
Proteomics Study Reveals A Protein That, When Suppressed, Makes Cancers More Susceptible To Chemotherapy Taxanes, a group of cancer drugs that includes paclitaxel (Taxol®) and docetaxel (Taxotere®), have become front-line therapy for a variety of metastatic cancers. But as with many chemotherapy agents, resistance can develop, a frequent problem in breast, ovarian, prostate and other cancers... ...more	28 Jan 2010
Antibiotics Might Team Up To Fight Deadly Staph Infections Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Israel's Weizman Institute of Science have found that two antibiotics working together might be more effective in fighting pathogenic bacteria than either drug on its own... ...more	28 Jan 2010
Evolution And Spread Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Tracked Across Hospitals And Continents An international team of researchers has used high resolution genome sequencing to track a particularly virulent strain of MRSA as it traveled between South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. The findings shed light on how these deadly bacteria are able to spread from patient to patient in a single hospital and, on a larger scale of geography and time, between countries and entire continents... ...more	26 Jan 2010
Scientists Map Origin Of MRSA, Technology Could Help Understanding Of Other Diseases "Scientists have found a way to track minutely-differing strains of the 'superbug' MRSA [methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus] as they spread between people and across the globe, a finding that could aid efforts to control the deadly bacteria," Reuters/ABC News reports (Kelland, 1/21)... ...more	25 Jan 2010
Future Treatment Choices Could Be Guided By Genes Linked To Breast Cancer Drug Resistance Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a gene activity signature that predicts a high risk of cancer recurrence in certain breast tumors that have been treated with commonly used chemotherapy drugs... ...more	25 Jan 2010
Workers Combat Hospital Infections CNN reports on efforts to combat hospital-acquired infections, which affect 1.7 million people each year and kill 99,000, while adding $28 billion to the nation's overall health care bill, according to federal research. "But there are signs of improvement... ...more	25 Jan 2010
"Norway-Type" MRSA Strategy In U.S. Likely To Boost Diagnostics Norwegian hospitals have received considerable attention in the news media this month due to their successful anti-MRSA efforts, and this coverage could be helpful to the diagnostics industry, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information... ...more	23 Jan 2010
Revolutionary Strategy For Control And Prevention Of MRSA For the first time, researchers have shown how transmission of MRSA from one person to another can be precisely tracked in a hospital setting. The team have developed a remarkable new method that can 'zoom' from large-scale inter-continental transmission events to the much finer detail of person-to-person infection of MRSA within a single hospital... ...more	23 Jan 2010
Identification Of Potential New Class Of Drugs To Combat Hepatitis C Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have discovered a novel class of compounds that, in experiments in vitro, inhibit replication of the virus responsible for hepatitis C... ...more	21 Jan 2010
Cempra Completes Enrollment Of Phase 2 Portion Of Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial Of TAKSTA(TM) For Treatment Of Acute Bacterial Skin And Structure Infection Cempra Pharmaceuticals announced completion of enrollment of the Phase 2 portion of its Phase 2/3 clinical trial of TAKSTA (sodium fusidate; CEM-102) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections... ...more	20 Jan 2010
Study Raises Concerns About Drug-Resistant HIV The emergence of drug-resistant strains of HIV could one day threaten efforts to control the global HIV pandemic, according to a study published online Thursday in the journal Science, HealthDay News/U.S. News & World Report reports... ...more	18 Jan 2010
Pennsylvania Department Of Health: Healthcare-Associated Infections Topped 13,000 In Second Half Of 2008 More than 13,000 healthcare-associated infections illnesses that often can be prevented were reported by Pennsylvania hospitals in the second half of 2008, according to initial data released today by the Department of Health. Such infections, also known as HAIs, are illnesses that patients acquire as a result of being in the hospital and did not have prior to admission... ...more	16 Jan 2010
2010 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards Granted For Pioneering Ideas In Cancer Research The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced that three scientists with novel approaches to fighting cancer have been named recipients of the 2010 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Awards. The grant of $450,000 over three years is awarded each year to early career scientists whose projects have the potential to significantly impact the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer... ...more	16 Jan 2010
Atlantic Examines Drug-Resistant TB Control Worldwide The Atlantic examines the emergence of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis around the world, with a look at the situation in South Africa. "[T]he resurgence of tuberculosis is not limited to South Africa... ...more	15 Jan 2010
Polar Bear Droppings Might Help Us Understand Superbugs Scientists from Norway and Italy have found scarecely any signs of superbugs in feces dropped by polar bears in the Arctic, and suggest that since these animals have little or no contact with humans, the spread of bacterial genes resistant to antibiotics could be due to our influence... ...more	15 Jan 2010
Superbug Debate Advanced By Polar Bear Droppings Scientists investigating the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs have gone the extra mile for their research - all the way to the Arctic... ...more	14 Jan 2010
Paradigm Changing Mechanism Is Revealed For The Control Of Gene Expression In Bacteria A new study led by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center is shedding new light on the action of Rho, a key regulatory protein in E. coli and many other bacteria. The study published in the January 14, 2010 issue of Nature reveals a new paradigm to understand the molecular principles of gene transcription... ...more	14 Jan 2010
HIV Mutations That Lead To Drug Resistance Traced By Researchers Chemists at UC San Diego and statisticians at Harvard University have developed a novel way to trace mutations in HIV that lead to drug resistance. Their findings, once expanded to the full range of drugs available to treat the infection, would allow doctors to tailor drug cocktails to the particular strains of the virus found in individual patients... ...more	12 Jan 2010
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