(Natural News) Gastrointestinal health relies on maintaining plenty of beneficial bacteria while keeping the numbers of harmful ones in check. Singaporean researchers warned about a particular gut microbe that might disrupt the composition of good bacteria. The gut contains trillions of microorganisms. Bacteria comprise most of the gut microbiota, but single-celled organisms and viruses are also present […]

(Natural News) Health care providers often incorrectly diagnose their patients with urinary tract infections (UTI). They prescribe them antibiotics that may not be necessary. This wrong prescription may lead to the appearance of superbugs with antibiotic resistance. To curb this, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) released updated guidelines on the diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). Published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, these new […]

(Natural News) Antibiotic-resistant infections remain a serious problem in hospitals throughout the world, and they’re widely considered to be one of the biggest health threats we are facing today. Unfortunately, the very places people go for treating such infections also happen to be major breeding grounds for superbug infections, and it’s impacting patients and doctors […]

(Natural News) The genetic evolution of bacteria is occurring at a rapid pace, and aberrations of bacterial DNA are transferring from one species to the next. These genetic deviations, spurred by antibiotics, are now transferring from humans to animals. For the first time ever, researchers have isolated antibiotic-resistant bacteria samples from household pets. Recently, a […]

(Natural News) One of the greatest challenges facing modern medicine today is antibiotic resistance. Almost a century since Penicillin was first discovered in strains of mold, medical science has isolated thousands of defensive, antibiotic compounds from microbes. These bio-active microbial metabolites have been mass produced as antibiotics to help humans fight infections. Because the human […]

(Natural News) Telemedicine might seem convenient compared to visiting the clinic in person. However, an online healthcare practitioner is more likely to prescribe unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs to the patient, researchers warn. This over-prescription not only makes antibiotic overuse more likely, but also increases the risk of superbugs with antibiotic resistance. An increasing number of healthcare providers […]

(Natural News) With its long and devastating history, the Ebola virus is truly terrifying. Just the words “plague” or “black death” are enough to strike fear into the hearts of many. Outbreaks of the plague were common for centuries, resulting in millions of deaths. More recent outbreaks have generally been contained to distant African countries […]

(Natural News) Bacteria do not need animal or human carriers to spread. A Rutgers-led study suggests that microbes take advantage of natural air currents and use them as bridges to travel from one remote location to another. The genes that encode antibiotic resistance in bacteria appear in many seemingly unrelated bacterial species. Even microbes separated by thousands of […]

(Natural News) The mucus layer of fish protect them from injuries and harmful infections. Certain beneficial bacteria that live in fish slime might help in the development of new antimicrobial treatments for drug-resistant infections. Excessive use of antibiotics for treating minor diseases and for fattening animals has led to the appearance of multidrug-resistant bacteria. This has caused […]

(Natural News) Spanish researchers found that viruses can slip through the natural defenses of the body with the help of other pathogens. The altruistic behavior of these disease-bearing microorganisms ensures that some of them will survive and gain resistance to immune responses. Institute of Integrated Systems Biology (I²SysBio) researcher Pilar Domingo-Calap served as the lead author. […]