Post Tagged with: "Antibiotics"

When food and medicine are not friends

When food and medicine are not friends

0 / November 13, 2010 5:51 am

Inertia, accustomed to accompany the intake of drugs with food or drink, or take medication after meals. But not in all cases is the best way to medicate. For example, if you are on blood thinning medication (such as Sintrom),

Antibacterial toothpaste under fire

Antibacterial toothpaste under fire

0 / October 18, 2010 8:00 am

The triclosan present in toothpastes, soaps and cosmetics due to drug resistance and is suspected of causing hormonal. The Committee for the scientific certainty of the European Union argues that the bactericidal activity of this substance may promote the spread

Antibiotics from nature – instead of chemically produced antibiotics

Antibiotics from nature – instead of chemically produced antibiotics

0 / October 7, 2010 7:28 am

One of the weapons of nature in the struggle for survival are the natural antibiotics that are effective in protecting plants against bacteria. Some are known for thousands of years and help to fight not only bacteria, fungi and viruses.

Revolutionary medical bandage using nanotechnology to fight infection

Revolutionary medical bandage using nanotechnology to fight infection

0 / July 10, 2010 12:24 pm

Scientists at the University of Bath and the Southwest team of UK Paediatric burns in the Burns Centre Frenchay Hospital in Bristol are working with teams across Europe and Australia to create an advanced wound dressing. The bandage works by

Worm helps the search for new antibiotics

Worm helps the search for new antibiotics

0 / May 5, 2010 8:42 am

In a breakthrough that could help ease drought of antibiotics, scientists from Massachusetts described the successful use of a test that uses the worm C. elegans to discover new antibiotics. Frederick Ausubel and his colleagues described in the new study