#antibiotics — Public Fediverse posts

God I love my Spanish and Greek friends but like always when I get an infection I need to sit in pain for 2 weeks because doctors in those countries and more fling out #antibiotics like its candy. My mum sick in cancer have to lie in pain as they try to find antibiotics that still works because places like #espana and #greece just hand stuff out like its candy and now strains of bacteria are resistant... Gah!

God I love my Spanish and Greek friends but like always when I get an infection I need to sit in pain for 2 weeks because doctors in those countries and more fling out #antibiotics like its candy. My mum sick in cancer have to lie in pain as they try to find antibiotics that still works because places like #espana and #greece just hand stuff out like its candy and now strains of bacteria are resistant... Gah!

God I love my Spanish and Greek friends but like always when I get an infection I need to sit in pain for 2 weeks because doctors in those countries and more fling out #antibiotics like its candy. My mum sick in cancer have to lie in pain as they try to find antibiotics that still works because places like #espana and #greece just hand stuff out like its candy and now strains of bacteria are resistant... Gah!

God I love my Spanish and Greek friends but like always when I get an infection I need to sit in pain for 2 weeks because doctors in those countries and more fling out #antibiotics like its candy. My mum sick in cancer have to lie in pain as they try to find antibiotics that still works because places like #espana and #greece just hand stuff out like its candy and now strains of bacteria are resistant... Gah!

A retrospective analysis of almost 600 hip and knee replacement patients who followed a post-op 7-day course of oral antibiotics found that the rate of joint infections did not differ at 90 days or 1 year from the rate for propensity score matched patients who did not receive antibiotics.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-case-antibiotics-joint-surgery.html

Original paper (not open access): https://www.arthroplastyjournal.org/article/S0883-5403(26)00561-9/abstract

#Science #Health #Medicine #Antibiotics #Infection #JointReplacement #HipReplacement #KneeReplacement

Venom and Hot Peppers Offer a Key to Killing Resistant Bacteria

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/mexican-science-transforms-scorpion-venom-and-habanero-chile-into-antibiotics-against-resistant-bacteria/

Antibiotic use in US meat production jumped 16% in 2024, report shows https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/antibiotic-meat-production #UsNews #Antibiotics #MeatIndustry #Farming #Animals

"Rapid Antibiotic Discovery using a Direct-to-Biology Approach"

Storm van der Voort from the group of Hermen Overkleeft and our group at the @LED3hub presented his exciting research into efficiently finding new antibacterially active #CovalentInhibitors using a direct-to-biology approach and into finding their targets using residue-specific chemoproteomics with the isoDTB-ABPP technology at #NWOCHAINS.

#Bacteria #Antibiotics #Chemistry #ChemBio #ChemicalProteomics #D2B

Go-to #therapy for #chronic #sinus condition doesn't work that well

#Surgery, not #antibiotics, might be the best way to treat chronic #rhinosinusitis, a condition that leaves people with a permanently blocked or #runnynose and a reduced #senseofsmell

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2494299-go-to-therapy-for-chronic-sinus-condition-doesnt-work-that-well/

Growing pathogens and pitting them against potential antibiotic compounds… with robots. It's all in a day's work.

More in our conversation with Jayashree Srinivasan, #microbiologist and #PastryChef.

https://podbite.link/bites/__U4EOei

Watch or listen on your favourite platform: https://steampoweredshow.com

Show notes at https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/jayashree-srinivasan

#pathogens #antibiotics #robots #microbiology #IndustrialMicrobiology

Drug-resistant infection - The agricultural sector has escaped scrutiny

"The issue of untreatable infections is no longer an abstract notion; it is now a reality."

"The Joint Expert Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR) said "the transfer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria along the meat chain is believed to be one of the most significant sources of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from animals", and the scientific consensus since then has only hardened."

"For decades, the meat industry used the drugs with relative abandon. The majority of this use had been not to treat sick animals, but as a key ingredient in animal feed to promote rapid growth and act as a prophylactic."

"JETACAR revealed two-thirds of Australia's antibiotics were being used in animals, and most of that for "subtherapeutic doses" to increase growth, prevent disease and "reduce feed requirements"."

"It was only a few weeks ago, three years into the new strategy, that the Department of Health finally awarded a $438,000 contract to big-four consultancy KPMG for the design of the surveillance system."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-28/antibiotic-resistance-amr-growing-threat-no-data/103154464

The emergence and diversification of a zoonotic pathogen from within the microbiota of intensively farmed pigs
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2307773120
#antibiotics #mdr #EmergingPathogens #meat #MeatChain #livestock #industry #animal #antimicrobials #Streptococcus #food #AnimalIndustry #lobbying #BigFour #regulation #OneHealth

#CancerPatients are confronting widespread #shortages of #chemotherapy #drugs
Doctors, scrambling to find the medications, are having to delay #lifesaving #therapies At the end of last year, there were 295 active medication shortages, ranging from #antibiotics and #anesthetics to #cardiac mediations and chemotherapy drugs, according to a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs report, https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Drug-Shortages-HSGAC-Majority-Staff-Report-2023-03-22.pdf a 30% increase since 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/05/cancer-drug-shortages/ #medicalemergency

i spent 90 minutes at the #dentist yesterday getting phase 1 (of 2) of a dental crown. my final appt in 2 weeks will hopefully end this adventure. hopefully!

this will literally cap off a 6year saga including… toothache, #cavity, emergency cavity repair, infection, #antibiotics, #RootCanal, gum disease and finally a much more invasive than anticipated grinding and (soon) permanent capping of the dead tooth, overall costing about $8k when all said and done.

tldr?

look after your #teeth folks!

UN report on 'silent pandemic' shows factory farming needs an overhaul
#FactoryFarming
#Fertilisers
#pesticides
#Antibiotics
#antimicrobials
#AMR
#SuperBugs
#Plants
#Animals https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2023/02/08/un-silent-pandemic-factory-farming/
>To meaningfully tackle the AMR superbug threat, along with most other environmental crises of our time, intensive farming will have to change

Since the outbreak of the #war in #Ukraine, certain hospital #pathogens that are #resistant to many #antibiotics have been detected much more frequently in #German #hospitals. The pathogen #Klebsiella #pneumoniae is also resistant to the reserve antibiotics of #carbapenems due to a combination of two #enzymes.
#Microbiology #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/mcb02022301.html