CLEVELAND (AP) — Indians manager Terry Francona is recovering from another health scare.
After missing most of last season with medical issues, Francona recently underwent surgery to remove...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Scientists succeeded in giving an antibiotic shot to a badly injured newborn whale they have been tracking off the coasts of Georgia and Florida, hoping to improve what...
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — For decades, bacteria have been figuring out ways to outsmart the antibiotics that once easily killed them. Partly due to overuse, the bugs' ability to resist antibiotics is...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Telemedicine may be leading to the overprescribing of antibiotics to sniffling children, a new study suggests.
Kids with cold symptoms seen via telemedicine visits were far...
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Researchers race to find antibiotic alternatives

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved a modernized version of a decades-old antibiotic used to treat a number of infections.
Paratek Pharmaceuticals' Nuzyra was designed to overcome the problem of resistance to tetracycline, an antibiotic widely used until recent years.
The company said the Food and Drug Administration approved Nuzyra for treating bacterial pneumonia and severe skin infections.
SEATTLE (AP) — Experts are preparing rare emergency efforts to administer antibiotics or feed live salmon to try to save a young emaciated orca that's part of a critically endangered pod of killer whales.
A novel ‘smart’ antibiotic may target most common bacterial infection contracted in US hospitals
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CDC: ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Pose Growing Threat
"Nightmare bacteria" with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt to see how much of a threat these rare cases are becoming, health officials said Tuesday.
That's more than they had expected to find, and the true number is probably higher because the effort involved only certain labs in each state, officials say.
Starting with Mother Nature’s designs will speed up critical development of new antibiotics
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Natalie Jones Slivinski, University of Washington
(THE CONVERSATION) “I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.” - Alexander Fleming
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Kevin M. Folta, University of Florida
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — New research from the University of Idaho has identified two genetic mutations in bacteria that help explain how some bacteria evolve and retain resistance to multiple antibiotics.
The results, published Aug. 7 in Nature, could play a role in helping scientists slow or stop the spread of antibiotic resistance to multiple drugs, something responsible for 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Brad Spellberg, University of Southern California