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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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A deadly modern disease may have an unexpected ancient cure

Medicine

Scientists are pleased with preliminary tests for a new cure for MRSA, the deadly antibiotic-resistant infection. But it’s not a fancy new technology: The new remedy was found in an Anglo-Saxon medical book that’s more than 1000 years old.

A newly discovered soil bacterium, Eleftheria terrae, is able to make teixobactin, a new antibiotic that can kill a range of disease-causing bacteria.

Scientists discover a potent new antibiotic

Medicine
MRSA bacteria

Are antibiotics in livestock helping fuel ‘superbugs’? Scientists and courts fight it out

Science
MRSA bacteria

Are antibiotics in livestock helping fuel ‘superbugs’? Scientists and courts fight it out

Science

China’s big hog farms pose a big antibiotic resistance risk

Environment
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Antibiotic use fuels drug resistant superbugs from India

Health & Medicine

Some of modern medicine’s most important drugs are losing their potency. Antibiotics are failing as disease-causing bacteria become resistant. It’s happening all over, but India may play an especially big role in fueling the problem.

FDA makes confusing, conflicting statements on antibiotic use in farm animals

Health & Medicine

Late last year, the FDA said it would no longer seek to formally regulate the use of the most common antibiotics in farm animals. A month later, though, the FDA said it would regulate the use of cephalosporins, which represent less than 1 percent of the antibiotics used on farms.

Antibiotics losing effectiveness

Health & Medicine

The overuse of antibiotics in livestock may be making the drugs less effective against bacteria.

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New superbug coming soon

Environment

Scientists have found a superbug that is resistant to most antibiotics. The BBC’s Johnny Hogg reports on the difference between this new but and MRSA and what makes it so dangerous

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