1. health.usnews.com

    Due to side effects, the medication was quickly stopped, and in total, he took just seven pills of ciprofloxacin (Cipro) - one of a class of powerful, widely prescribed antibiotics called ...
  2. my.clevelandclinic.org

    The more we use antibiotics as a society, the more the problem of antibiotic resistance can grow. Handwashing is one important step you can take. Your healthcare provider can offer additional advice. ... Thankfully, antibiotics are still powerful tools in the fight against many bacterial infections. They'll improve your symptoms and lower the ...
  3. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    A multi-site, multi-study investigation of prescribing patterns among American physicians is revealing widescale overuse and misuse of antibiotics. The revelations carry "powerful" implications for Canadian physicians as well, says Edmonton-based Dr. Lynora Saxinger, past-chair of the Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Committee of ...
  4. The world's last line of defense against disease-causing bacteria just got a new warrior: vancomycin 3.0. Its predecessor—vancomycin 1.0—has been used since 1958 to combat dangerous infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.But as the rise of resistant bacteria has blunted its effectiveness, scientists have engineered more potent versions of the drug—vancomycin 2.0.
  5. Research has shown that taking an antibiotic can cause infectious bacteria in the body to develop resistance to antibiotics; these drug-resistant germs can trigger subsequent infections that are ...
  6. Health officials are sounding increasingly urgent alarms about the need for powerful new drugs to treat increasingly resistant infections. ... "Antibiotic resistance is a real problem that, with ...
  7. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    The looming problem of antibiotic resistance demands urgent response by the pharma companies with new novel antibiotics . Unfortunately, there is a dearth of development in new antibiotics, despite having repeated calls from the WHO. Surprisingly, only 8 out of the 51 newly developed antibiotics can be catalogued as innovative drugs to treat ...
  8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    Formula of ridinilazole. Ridinilazole is a synthetic antibiotic of the class of bis-benzimidazoles, discovered by Summit Therapeutics for the treatment of C. difficile: It showed rapid bactericidal activity [].From the promising results of Phase II, it was evident that patients who were given ridinilazole had a greater clinical response in the eradication of C. difficile compared to patients ...
  9. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    National Center for Biotechnology Information

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articles › PMC10877623

    Jul 7, 2023However, antibiotic resistance (AR) has long threatened the advances of modern medicine. Widespread use of penicillin in clinical therapy started in 1943, and a decade later penicillin resistance had already become a major clinical problem . This same phenomenon has been seen with each new antibiotic that has been approved for clinical use.

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