Sentences with phrase «of modern antibiotics»

HISTORY OF THIMEROSAL Before the invention of modern antibiotics and antiseptics, physicians experimented with mercury - containing compounds to try to stave off microbial pathogens.

The discovery of penicillin almost 90 years ago ushered in the age of modern antibiotics, but the growth of antibiotic resistance means bacterial infections like pneumonia and tuberculosis are becoming more difficult to treat.

And yet there were important advances long before the era of modern antibiotics and anesthesia.

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How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

Its message of mercy has been, as the Pope himself has declared, a true antibiotic for our modern world so diseased by sin.

We support wholeheartedly his comment, because he states further that if the efficacy of antibiotics is lost this will be a huge step backwards for modern medicine.

In a modern outbreak of plague, antibiotics and other medical advances help us fare better, but it remains a particularly nasty disease.

The deadly Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany last year, which sickened more than 4,000 people and killed more than 50, may be traceable to modern factory farming, which uses massive doses of antibiotics to curb animal infections, likely converting a normally benign microbe into an antibiotic - resistant killer.

The ability of microorganisms to overcome antibiotic treatments is one of the top concerns of modern medicine.

Modern antibiotics might mean that a re-run of the 1918 pandemic would be less dangerous.

In a statement upon learning of their award, the team members said: «We were astounded at how little the nation knows about antibiotic - resistant infections, a problem that threatens how we practice modern medicine.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / patrickheagney Antibiotics have been a boon to modern pediatric medicine — transforming many previously fatal childhood ailments into mere inconveniences.

«Very few, if any, medical discoveries have had a larger impact on modern medicine than the discovery and development of antibiotics,» said senior author Ronald C. Montelaro, Ph.D., professor and co-director of Pitt's CVR.

No doctor can work without nurses, translators, or the tools of modern medicine: iv fluids and catheters, sterilized equipment, antibiotics, bandages, needles, and syringes.

Based on a pathogen's evolutionary history, researchers hope to spot the modern emergence of antibiotic - resistant strains.

Professor Paul Cosford, Public Health England Medical Director said: «Antibiotics are critical to modern medicine, saving millions of lives since the 1940s when they were first introduced.

Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt said: «Drug - resistant infections are one of the biggest threats to modern medicine and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics is only exacerbating this problem.

England's Chief Medical officer, Dame Sally Davies has said that such resistance to antibiotics could spell the end of modern medicine.

«Antibiotic resistance is one of the major problems in modern medicine,» said Adbelwahab.

The adaptability of pathogens is a great challenge to modern medicine, particularly the growing bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

Award - winning journalist Maryn McKenna talks about her latest book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats.

But in recent years, microbes have responded by developing resistance to many of the most powerful antibiotics, threatening to undermine one of modern medicine's greatest achievements.

β - Lactamases encoded by reconstructed sequences corresponding to the GNCA node have been previously shown11 to be able to degrade a variety of antibiotics, including penicillin and third - generation antibiotics with efficiencies similar to that of a modern average enzyme (by contrast, the modern TEM - 1 β - lactamase is a specialist enzyme that displays high catalytic efficiency with penicillin and a substantially lower efficiency with third - generation antibiotics).

Without the use of animals, we would not have many of the modern medicines, antibiotics, vaccines and surgical techniques that we take for granted in both human and veterinary medicine.

The emergence of antibiotic resistance in human pathogens has become a major threat to modern medicine and in particular hospitalized patients.

This calling to medicine comes from deep within us, usually at a very young age, and it ties us to the lineage of medicine that predates modern medical advances like antibiotics, sterile surgical technique, or vaccinations.

Modern «protectors» against bacteria like antibacterial hand soaps, extensive food sterilization techniques, and overuse of antibiotics have left our immune systems out of practice.

While antibiotics clearly have their place in treating life threatening bacterial infections, their overuse has led to a plethora of modern day health challenges and autoimmune disease.

«Unfortunately, due to overuse of antibiotics, stress, and other modern environmental and dietary issues, most people of all ages have a compromised probiotic population,» Dr. Fred Pescatore, author of the best seller Feed Your Kids Well, said.

Silver Makes Antibiotics Thousands of Times More Effective: The antimicrobial treatment could help to solve modern bacterial resistance

When we lose our gut flora through a course of antibiotics, or a prolonged course of other modern medications or other influences, the first thing that happens is the person becomes pale and pasty.

However, when we wipe out the beneficial bacteria — and they are extremely vulnerable to broad spectrum antibiotics, to the contraceptive pill, to steroid medications prescribed on a long term basis, in fact to the majority of modern drugs that are used on a repeat prescription basis — we end up with what is called gut dysbiosis (damaged gut flora).

Journal of Medical Case Reports 4, no. 1 (2010): 111; Blaser, M. J. Missing microbes: How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

Unfortunately in our modern day society, with the overuse of antibiotics, exposure to toxins and poor gut health, those numbers are out of whack.

However, modern diets, stressful lifestyles, and the use of antibiotics can tip these bacteria out of balance so that the bad outnumber the good.

In 1929 when modern medicine saw the results of the first antibiotic (Penicillin) they quickly forgot about the ancient wisdom that had been handed down for 1,000 ′ s of years.

Antibiotics are one of the cornerstones of modern medicine.

Also, the prevalence of potentially harmful hormones and antibiotics in most commercially available dairy products due to modern farming practices is decidedly «not Paleo.»

Probiotics: Modern food and water contain traces of antibiotics even if you do not take antibiotics on a regular basis.

Modern agricultural practices, including the use of antibiotics in livestock, reduce the range of probiotics the gut is exposed to even more.

«In our modern world where people are regularly taking antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs, where food is laced with chemicals alien to the human physiology, an increasing number of people have damaged, abnormal gut flora dominated by pathogenic [disease - causing] microbes.

Long before the development of modern pharmaceuticals, silver was employed as a germicide and antibiotic.

All of these diseases of excess are multifactorial, meaning that it is an exceedingly complex and varied system and you usually can't blame just one thing when there is an endless stream of things; but meat, especially modern factory meat, embodies a broad spectrum of these causative factors: saturated fat, animal protein, heme iron, pathogens, endotoxins, antibiotics, hormones, biomagnified environmental toxins, microbiome dysbiosis, etc..

Because of modern factory farming methods and the levels of pesticides used in farming, dairy products contain residues of pesticides used in growing grain that is fed to cows, as well as the hormones and antibiotics given directly to cows.

Modern lifestyle factors like the overuse of antibiotics, and diets high in processed, preserved, and histamine producing foods (i.e. most conventional yogurt), all contribute to an unhealthy gut biome.

«There's an increasing disruption of these microbes from modern lifestyle, diet, overuse of antibiotics and other issues.

By Jim English Humans lived for millions of years without the benefit of modern pharmaceutical antibiotics.

In the days of our ancestors, the hunter gatherers of the stone age when they had no antibiotics, chemotherapy and all the advances of modern...

He lays a lot of the blame for the wholesale slaughter of good bacteria at the doorstep of modern - day antibiotics, which started with one of the most revered men in medical history, Sir Alexander Fleming.