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Michael Lisanti and antibiotics: the next cancer revolution
Speaking to Health Europa, Professor Michael Lisanti, MD-PhD, FRSA discusses the potential role of antibiotics in preventing the recurrence of cancer.
How would you cure...
Learning from Nature: understanding sustainable antibiotic use
There is a pressing need to better understand sustainable antibiotic use and the evolution of resistance in infectious diseases.
The evolution of antibiotic-resistant pathogens poses...
Michael Lisanti and his focus on doxycycline antibiotics
Health Europa delves further into Lisanti’s successful breast cancer clinical trial and the remarkable use of doxycycline antibiotics.
Lisanti and his wife Professor Sotgia, from...
Success: effects of antibiotics in breast cancer clinical trial
Scientist inspired by 8-year-old daughter found positive effects of antibiotics in a successful breast cancer clinical trial.
In a breast cancer clinical trial, patients were...
Ciprofloxacin side effects dramatically affect the mitochondrial genome
Antibiotics are to be used cautiously with Ciprofloxacin side effects causing severe issues on metabolism, according to a study carried out at the University...
UCLA discovers 8,000 surprisingly effective combinations of antibiotics
Biologists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have uncovered thousands of four- and five-drug combinations of antibiotics that are surprisingly effective.
The discovery...
Infection and inflammation, is there medication for the future?
A new study has mapped how the body’s own peptides act to reduce infection and inflammation by deactivating the toxic substances formed in the...
Antibiotic treatment should stop to avoid resistance “tipping point”
New research from the University of Exeter, UK, shows that if antibiotic treatment continues to be used, patients will pass the “tipping point” of...
Having a penicillin allergy increases risk of superbug infections
Patients with a recorded penicillin allergy on their medical records are at risk of develop drug-resistant superbug infections such as MRSA, a new study...
ECDC highlights future threat of drug-resistant gonorrhoea
Following three cases of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea in Europe and Australia, there is concern that the growing threat of drug resistance could lead to untreatable...
Three new medicines recommended for approval
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) have recommended three new medicines for approval that will treat numerous...
Small amounts of antibiotics can cause antibiotic resistance
New research from Uppsala University, Sweden, has found that even low concentrations of antibiotics can cause high antibiotic resistance to develop in bacteria.
Antibiotic resistance...
University of Denmark invests in secondary metabolites research
The University of Denmark (DTU) is to open a new Center of Excellence of Microbial Secondary Metabolites (CeMiSt), which will help identify why micro-organisms...
A new family of antibiotics found in dirt samples
Scientists at Rockefeller University, US, have discovered a new family of antibiotics in samples of soil which could prove significant in the battle against...
Antimicrobial resistance: older compounds to tackle a modern issue
Scientists at the University of Leeds, UK, are looking at previously discarded chemical compounds to see if there is anything that could help develop...
Alternative therapies could reduce antibiotic resistance
US researchers have said that new treatments for mild infections could help slow the mutation of severe bacterial infections with less antibiotic resistance.
In a...
The evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance: A call for more holistic analyses
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria already existed in the environment before antibiotics were used in human medicine.1 Besides promoting the development of new resistance traits, the way...
