Sentences with phrase «infection than treat»

Because of the cost and risk of treatment, it is much better to prevent infection than treat it.

Not exact matches

The evolution of such resistance does not cause the organism to be more intrinsically virulent than strains of Staphylococcus aureus that have no antibiotic resistance, but resistance does make MRSA infection more difficult to treat with standard types of antibiotics and thus more dangerous.

Excess health care costs totaling more than $ 4 billion must be paid by the U.S. health care system each year to treat otitis media (middle ear infection), gastroenteritis (infection or irritation of the stomach and intestines), and necrotizing enterocolitis (an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants) â $ «childhood diseases and conditions preventable or reduced by breastfeeding.

When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.

They then suffer a relapse far more difficult to treat than the initial infection.

«Because BX795 targets a common pathway that many viruses use to replicate inside the cell, it could be a new kind of broad - spectrum antiviral that might be used to treat other viral infections, including HSV - 2, which primarily affects the genitals, and HIV, although we have not yet tested it on viruses other than HSV - 1.»

Infections are often treated longer than necessary, and multiple antibiotics are given when one would work as well.»

Jenkins believes a bandage that can spot and treat an infection faster than clinicians can will be particularly beneficial for burn victims — nearly 50 percent of all burn - related deaths result from infection.

«This peptide is exciting in the sense that it provides a new alternative for treating these infections, which are predicted to kill more people annually than any other cause of death in our society, including cancer.»

Indeed, so many patients have developed HUS that German physicians have treated more than 200 people with the antibody eculizumab, which had previously only been used to treat three infection - related cases of the syndrome.

More than three fourths of all current antibiotics used to treat human infections are produced by Actinobacteria, which at the same time carry antibiotic resistance genes.

The new study was a prospective, randomized, investigator - blinded study that included more than 250 daptomycin - exposed children, ages 1 to 17, to document safety and efficacy of the antibiotic in treating pediatric skin and skin structure infections.

Experts estimate that more than 70 percent of all hospital - acquired infections are caused by bacteria that are resistant to at least one of the drugs commonly used to treat them.

Hospital - acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator - associated pneumonia (VAP)-- which account for 20 to 25 percent of hospital - acquired infections — should be treated with shorter courses of antibiotics than they typically are, according to new guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and American Thoracic Society (ATS) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug Lucentis made by the same company, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«We found that, although the infection rate was slightly lower with the alcohol - based solution (5.8 %) than in the water - based solution (6.8 %), the difference was not significant, and it would require 100 patients to be treated with alcoholic solution to prevent one extra infection.»

By treating HIV - positive people earlier and in far greater numbers than ever before, as many as 3 million deaths and 3.5 million new infections could be prevented by 2025.

Unfortunately, in more than 25 percent of cases studied, such prescriptions are useless because the infection stems from a virus, which can not be treated with antibiotics.

Its most popular member is ciprofloxacin or Cipro — the antibiotic of anthrax - slaying fame — which doctors prescribe to treat more than 15 kinds of bacterial infections.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimates that about 4 % of hospital patients — more than 1 million people a year — acquire serious and often life - threatening infections during the course of being treated.

Five subjects were treated with placebo and all ten were evaluated by more than five different diagnostic methods to characterize any remaining infection.

Rifampicin, also known as Rifampin, has been used to treat bacterial infections for more than 40 years.

A team from Sydney's Westmead Institute for Medical Research is a step closer to developing a drug to treat life - threatening fungal infections that cause more than 1.6 million deaths annually.

More than one - third of the world's population is susceptible to active tuberculosis, so it is unfortunate that Sutherlandia, which traditionally is taken to prevent or treat infections, can actually cause them to develop the disease, and perhaps also cause the microbe to become a drug - resistant «super bug.»»

«It might explain why fungal infections are so difficult to treat — they're more like us than we thought.

In 1918 Spanish Flu killed more than 20 million people, although the crisis was exacerbated by the absence of antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections.

It corroborates the findings of another NIAID - funded study demonstrating that TMP - SMX treatment resulted in better clinical outcomes than placebo for MRSA skin abscesses, and also upholds other findings that both clindamycin and TMP - SMX are equally beneficial in treating MRSA skin infections.

Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin - tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by ceftriaxone - resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae and should be avoided when treating these organisms, according to research presented at the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)[1].

Also, during the 1 - year follow - up, combined analysis of MSC - treated groups revealed significantly decreased risk of opportunistic infections than the control group.

Nearly a third of all antibiotics prescribed for hospitalized children globally were intended to prevent potential infections rather than to treat disease, according to the results of a worldwide survey published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

The most common adverse reactions that occurred in the controlled study in at least 20 % of SPINRAZA - treated patients and occurred at least 5 % more frequently than in control patients were upper respiratory infection (39 % vs 34 %), lower respiratory infection (43 % vs 29 %), and constipation (30 % vs 22 %).

In addition, mice intravenously infected with free MRSA and treated 24 hours later with AAC had significantly less infection in their kidneys than those treated with vancomycin at the same time point.

TB kills more people than any other infectious disease, and the causative bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics used to treat the infection.

«Eventually, this is likely to result in decreased rates of HIV but also potentially higher rates of other sexually transmitted infections, which are much more easily treated than HIV,» he said.

You might not actually have a yeast infection: Other problems, like bacterial vaginosis or certain STDs, can cause itching or discharge that mimic yeast symptoms but require antibiotics rather than antifungals to treat.

While antibiotics have been used to treat diverticulitis in the past, experts are starting to suspect that inflammation may play a bigger role than an infection.

A human body is a lot more complex than a Petri dish, so simply because something kills germs on a Petri Dish doesn't mean we should eat it to prevent or treat an infection.

You have less than 72 hours after removing the tick to treat the infection successfully with antibiotics and without a diagnostic test.

Based on my experience spanning almost thirty years in the clinic I certainly support this remarkable assertion that many more people suffer with a yeast infection than are actually diagnosed and treated.

For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.

Heartworm prevention for the lifetime of your dog costs less than treating one heartworm infection, and your dog does not have to suffer the effects of the disease and the treatment.

A vet has to provide supportive care, which treats the symptoms of the infection rather than the infection itself.

Although cats have no more germs in their mouths than dogs or people, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found that when cats bite, their sharp teeth can inject hard - to - treat bacteria deeply into the skin and joints, increasing the risk for serious infection.

Treatment of ear problems will depend on the cause of the disease, for example, a bacterial infection is treated differently than a yeast infection.

Also, if your veterinarian has previously treated your dog for heartworm disease, you might be surprised to learn that it can take more than a year for your dog's body to remove all the evidence of an infection from the bloodstream.

Your veterinarian can help diagnose the underlying cause in hopes of preventing the secondary infections, rather than just treating the animal and the secondary problems time after time.

A passage in the CAPC guidelines written in capital letters practically shouts the importance of using approved «adulticide» products to treat heartworm infected dogs rather than the «slow - kill» method of using macrocyclic lactone preventives to gradually treat an adult heartworm infection.

A major advantage of this antibiotic still in modern veterinary medicine is in treating neurologic or brain infections, where this drug often reaches higher therapeutic levels than many other drugs.

It is possible the ear infection didn't go away so treating that again with something stronger than ear wash might be a good idea - maybe even oral medication if your veterinarian thinks the infection may be affecting her middle ear.

It is important to remember that the initial cost of preventative medicine is much less than the cost of treating diseases or infections later.