Each year, tens of thousands of people die because they are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The studies show that Zyvox was as well-tolerated and effective as vancomycin, a common hospital antibiotic.
Wyeth has cut its antibiotic research staff from 80 in 2003 to 15 currently.
At Cubist Pharmaceuticals outside Boston, Wyeth veteran Francis Tally rescued a novel antibiotic abandoned by Eli Lilly.
Established drugs includes the antibiotic Clarithromycin and the prescription painkiller Brufen, a version of ibuprofen.
Another is Zyvox, a totally new type of antibiotic for fighting microbes resistant to other medications.
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) has recommended the antibiotic Tygacil to treat hospital infections.
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They include acne drug Sotret, epilepsy and nerve pain drug gabapentin, and antibiotic ciprofloxacin.
The drug is a powerful hospital antibiotic, but has some safety issues that limit its use.
Nearly all of Vicuron's antibiotic researchers were shown the door in just six months.
"Very commonly, desperate parents would rather have an antibiotic than go that route, " Dr. Jackson says.
In her lab at Northern Kentucky University, Barton has identified 24 new microorganisms with antibiotic properties.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 100, 000 patients a year, and they are notoriously hard to fight.
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The Environmental Working Group would like the FDA to regulate antibiotic use in meat better.
Some 70% of the bacteria that cause hospital infections are resistant to at least one antibiotic.
The Environmental Working Group would like the FDA to better regulate antibiotic use in meat.
Until recently the regulator examined only the effects of the antibiotic residue in animals.
An antibiotic, Ketek, had side effects and multiple problems with its clinical trials, including outright fraud.
If bacteria are resistant to an antibiotic, they allow patients to be infectious longer.
Thanks to this, we can currently track outbreaks of infections and trends in antibiotic resistance.
But scientists never had the actual recipe used by the organism to make the antibiotic chemical.
McEVERS: The company partnered with food giant Cargill--recently bought the Brauer farm to produce antibiotic-free pork.
After 40 days on vancomycin, a superpotent antibiotic that can affect kids' hearing, Bryce pulled through.
The future of Vanlev, for hypertension, and desquinolone, an antibiotic, seems even more uncertain.
This will help reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from colonised wounds to susceptible patients.
Lloyd Conover invented the antibiotic tetracycline and has probably saved a billion lives from early demise.
Numerous articles and calls to action have been issued to coincide with European Antibiotic Awareness Day.
Over time, particularly if antibiotic courses are not completed, the resistant strains become dominant in hospitals.
Yet there are no substantiated reports of antibiotic-resistance genes jumping from a plant to a bacterium.
The researchers also found that early antibiotic use was associated with a wide range of allergies.
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