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Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

... government accuses Pfizer of administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital during an epidemic in the city of meningitis, measles and cholera. Of the 200 children affected, 11 died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from d...

The Hospital Superbugs

...ction. This will reduce the selection pressure for antibiotic resistance that arises from the use of traditional antibiotics. Professor Richard James, Director of CHAI said: We intend to apply for 5m over the next five years to increase the critical mass of researchers drawn from nine schools at The Universi...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

...bes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths. In the pharmaceuticals department, Cao, 45, had the power to approve pharmaceutical production in China from 2002 to 2006. The sentencing was followed a day later by a report in the official China Daily that the foo...

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...iority to the standard prescribed oral dose of the antibiotic vancomycin, as measured by the percent of patients...mplications and more frequent failures of standard antibiotic therapy. Tolevamer is designed to bind and neutralize the toxins released by C. difficile that dam...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

A Japanese medical team has found that a form of antibiotic could prevent cancer patients from losing hair during chemotherapy, a doctor involved in the research said Monday . Toshiyuki Sakai said his team had found "alopestatin" reduced hair loss by 70 percent when used on rats also given etoposide anti-ca...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...creening patients before admission and our prudent antibiotic policy, the trust is winning the battle against hospital-acquired infections. The trust reported 74 new case of C. difficile in April and only 16 cases in June....

Scientists Find New Way to Kill Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

...ck this enzyme and prevent bacteria from spreading antibiotic resistance genes. The researchers say that inte...very type of bacteria has become more resistant to antibiotic treatment in the last decade, and these bugs cause deadly infections that are difficult to treat and...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...f Agriculture (USDA), is looking into the brunt of antibiotic feeding in livestock production on the environment...rsity of Minnesota studied whether food crop amass antibiotic present in the soil that has been enhanced with manure containing antibiotics. The research was pres...

Daily Antibiotics may Not Prevent Future Urinary Tract Infections Risk in Kids

...investigator of the study. "We found that daily antibiotic treatment was not associated with a decreased risk...ctors needed to start discussing the risk of daily antibiotic use with kids' parents before prescribing the medicines. "More definitive studies, such as clinica...

Pfizer Says Nigeria Gave Approval for 1996 Drug Test

... governments accuse Pfizer of administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital during an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera. Of the 200 children affected, 11 died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from deafness, par...

Protein Structure of Pathogens Associated With CF and TB Solved

...ity to disable this protein and may identify a new antibiotic that could limit the infections that can be fatal in CF patients, Gulick said. Work from other labs has identified the proteins that are essential to make pyoverdine, the compound that Pseudomonas produces to obtain iron. Some of these proteins are ...

TB Traveler Underwent Surgery to Remove Infected Lung Tissue

...edical and Research Center in Denver to finish his antibiotic course. He will still have to continue taking the medications prescribed by his doctors to fight the tuberculosis until cultures taken from him are negative for tuberculosis bacteria for eight weeks. The diseased part of the lung is now off to mi...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...lion dollars in damages related to the tests of an antibiotic called Trovan, which allegedly killed 11 children....lier complaint accused Pfizer of administering the antibiotic without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital during an epidemic of m...

Indian Antibiotic Faces Anti-dumping Duties in China

...duty of up to 37.7 per cent on Indian manufactured antibiotic sulfamethoxazole . The anti-dumping duty tax r... Sulfamethoxazole is a sulfonamide bacteriostatic antibiotic and also serves as an important material in producing other sulfonamides. It is commonly used to tre...

Scientists Trace New Pathway That may Stem Antibiotic Resistance

...ent that may lead to improved antibiotics and less antibiotic resistance. The new findings have been reported in two complementary papers authored by Dr. Dmitry Vassylyev, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. "RNA polymerase is the key enzyme regulating the transfer of genetic information from ...

India's Wockhardt Launches Drug in US Market

...or Wockhardt Wednesday announced the launch of its antibiotic tablets Cefprozil in the US after receiving approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). Cefprozil, a Cephalosporin class of antibiotics, is used in the treatment of respiratory tract and skin infections. "Several of our products...

Orchid Gets Approval for Antibiotic Drug from FDA

... Cefepime injection is a life saving cephalosporin antibiotic drug with an annual sale of $190 million, and is u...nnai-based Orchid has filed 40 ANDAs comprising 29 antibiotic and 11 non-antibiotic products so far with the FDA. It has received approvals for 19 ANDAs, includin...

Researchers Devise New Compound to Treat Fungal Infections

...l compounds that could help counter the problem of antibiotic resistance," Cusack said. The findings of the study were published in the June issue of Science....

New Transgenic Mushrooms Raise Hope for Mass Production of Human Drugs

...then exposed the mushroom cells to hygromycin. The antibiotic killed all the normal cells, separating out those that had been genetically altered for resistance. The study demonstrated that if a second gene, insulin for example, were to be patched in the plasmid, that gene would be expressed as well. "There...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...ertain antibiotics, but those then fail because of antibiotic resistance. There are several more potent antibiotics now, but doctors need to know when to use them. If the infection goes so deep that it involves muscles or fibers that enclose muscles, it needs to be surgically cleaned. Dr. Susan Gerber of Ch...

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