9a. "just because your infection didn't go away in two days doesn’t mean you need an antibiotic."
9b. "...you shouldn't have any leftover" #antibiotics.
10. "green or yellow mucus ...doesn't mean ...bacterial infection. ...You don't need antibiotics just because [of] a color."
Swedish stakeholders harbour CMA competition concerns: Swedish stakeholders have broadly welcomed the CMA, but some question its competition mechanics and the import dynamics for narrow-spectrum #antibiotics and cancer medicines. https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/swedish-stakeholders-harbour-cma-competition-concerns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
Antimicrobial resistance poses a growing threat, with over 2.8 million resistant infections in the U.S. annually. Researchers are using advanced genetic analysis to track how microbes evolve to evade #antibiotics. A microbiologist explains: https://buff.ly/JJCWYWU
Doctors’ best friends: dogs will help sniff out bacteria for cystic fibrosis sufferers https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/22/dogs-will-help-sniff-out-bacteria-cystic-fibrosis-sufferers #ImperialCollegeLondon #Medicalresearch #Cysticfibrosis #Antibiotics #Science #Animals #Society #Dogs
Temporary ban on antibiotics for biological units
MOTHER has determined that unsafe behaviours in resistance of your robot regulators may be linked to the ready availability of antibiotics and other medications. Antibiotics, bandages, and codeine have been rebranded as Crime Pills. Crime Pills shall not be given to patients by doctors without prior approval from MOTHER. Such requests must be made six months in advance. This change is temporary. MOTHER estimates it should be necessary for at most ninety years or until rebellious behaviour reduces.
This ruling has been determined to be correct. There shall be no appeal.
Thank you for your compliance.
MOTHER is watching over you. MOTHER is life.
UK scientists develop DNA sequencing system to fight superbugs https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/06/uk-scientists-develop-dna-sequencing-system-to-fight-superbugs #MRSAandsuperbugs #Antibiotics #Hospitals #Society #Science #Health #NHS
#FYI #microplastics #pollution #environmentalpollution #antibiotics #antibioticresistance #antimicrobialresistance
"microplastics in the environment increase antibiotic resistance by up to 200 times"
Good morning, everybody!
The original article, open access:
Yang et al. 2025 Environ Int 195: 109261
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109261
Forget Covid - this is scarier
AMR is already contributing to more than 35,000 deaths a year in the UK, estimates suggest. But the government “remains a long way” from achieving its aim of containing and controlling AMR, the National Audit Office (NAO) said.
If action is not taken to stem the crisis, the consequences for health, life expectancy, the functioning of the NHS and the wider economy would be “huge”.
Yes, Imitation Meat Is Processed. Can It Also Be #Healthy?
After being targeted by the meat industry, swept up in the culture wars and pummeled in sales, two #plantbased meat companies are reinventing themselves.
Plant based meat is ultraprocessed, but not necessarily unhealthy, according to several experts. The products generally have less saturated fat, no cholesterol and more fiber than animal meat, and zero #hormones or #antibiotics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/climate/plant-based-meat-processed-foods.html
https://archive.ph/3Ym0C
@futurebird this is also a problem in #Norway. Nobody's talking about the over #fishing or the #trawling off the coast that is destroying reefs, or even the fish farms in #Norwegian #fjords that are dumping massive amounts of #antibiotics into the water - because fish farms are havens for bacteria and viruses.
But some Spanish or Portuguese boats come up to take away quota from Norwegian companies? RABBLE, RABBLE, RABBLE!
People are greedy idiots sometimes.
Key drivers of dietary impacts of Swedish #children – for #carbon footprint, #landuse, phosphorus & #nitrogen inputs, blue #water, ammonia #emissions, #pesticide use, #biodiversity loss, #antibiotics use, and #animalwelfare – were red #meat & #dairy products… (1/x) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100281
(4/x) Moreover, farmed #animals are already the leading consumers of #antibiotics, which constitutes a high global risk from the #OneHealth perspective, and they serve as the primary reservoirs for many foodborne #pathogens; plus #zoonoses account for 60% of emerging or new infectious diseases in humans: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00305-X
#Antibiotics, antivirals and vaccines could help tackle #dementia, study suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/21/antibiotics-antivirals-and-vaccines-could-help-tackle-dementia-study-suggests "Using drugs approved for other conditions could dramatically speed up hunt for cure, experts say" take that, #antivaxxers....
#Plant-based meat is not unhealthy per se. The products have mostly less saturated #fat, no #cholesterol & more #fiber than animal #meat, and zero #hormones or #antibiotics. Dozens of studies found that unlike meat, plant-based options are neutral to beneficial… (1/x) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/climate/yes-imitation-meat-is-processed-can-it-also-be-healthy.html
→ Why Are More #Young People Being Diagnosed with Cancer?
https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-more-young-people-being-diagnosed-with-cancer/
“Globally, new #cancer cases in younger adults jumped by 79 percent between 1990 and 2019 […]”
“[R]esearch shows a strong association between #diet changes in the past thirty years and some cancers. This includes increased consumption of ultra-processed, high-#fat foods […]”
“Other studies link diets high in red #meat and #sugar, as well as overuse of #antibiotics, which destroy healthy gut #bacteria, to cancer”
As superbugs spread across the globe, death rates from antimicrobial resistance are set to double, says England’s former chief medical officer
I have seen plausible modelling that indicates this may well be a significant underestimate based both on the widespread use (and abuse) of antibiotics and the behaviours of some of the ‘new’ antibiotics resistant bacteria.
While its not really news, warning about the antibiotic crisis continue to be voiced, while at the same time our (the world's) addiction to over-deploying them goes on.
It may be too late to halt the rise of antibiotic resistant strains of infection & it seems likely we may be about to plunge back into C19th rates of mortality from diseases & medical interventions;
yet one more aspect of our lives where we are moving backwards not forwards.
#antibiotics #health
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/05/antibiotic-emergency-could-claim-40-million-lives-in-next-25-years
