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Pharmaceutical use in Norwegian fish farming in 2001-2007

The sales are shown in kilograms of active ingredient; antibacterials, anaesthetics, anthelmintics and treatments for sea lice and fungi. The figures are based on sales from wholesalers to pharmacies ...

Life Sciences |

Antibacterial chemical disrupts hormone activities

The findings come as an increasing number of studies – of both lab animals and humans – are revealing that some synthetic chemicals in household products can cause health problems by interfering with ...

Life Sciences |

GPs antibiotic prescribing practices are still contributing to resistance

Although prescriptions of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections declined during the 1990s, GPs still continue to prescribe antibiotics for a high proportion of infections even if the cause of t...

Health and Medicine |

Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline announce partnership to target drug-resistant hospital infections

GSK has received a £4 million award from the Trust to accelerate development of compounds for the treatment of Gram-negative bacteria which are becoming increasingly resistant to multiple antibacteria...

Health and Medicine |

New antibacterials being developed to tackle MRSA superbug

Prolysis, an R&D company based in Oxford, has received one of three inaugural Seeding Drug Discovery awards for its new antibacterial compounds aimed at tackling life-threatening, drug-resistant infec...

Life Sciences |

‘Big Brother’ surveillance stops Salmonella getting stressed out

Salmonella food poisoning costs the UK economy around £1 billion every year and severe cases can become life threatening for the young and the elderly. The researchers from the Max Planck Institute fo...

Life Sciences |

Improving textile hygiene

EUREKA project E! 2709 BASTEX has developed new antibacterial additives which can be incorporated into polypropylene material to produce high-performance clothing. The outcome of this project has been...

Materials Sciences |

Mining for gems in the fungal genome

New method may speed quest for medically useful compounds in fungi Ever since penicillin, a byproduct of a fungal mold, was discovered in 1929, scientists have scrutinized ...

Life Sciences |

Few microbiological differences in households using antibacterials

A microbiological survey of households finds little significant difference in levels of bacteria or antibiotic resistance between those that use antibacterial cleaning products and those who do...

Health and Medicine |

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