LONDON AFP — British researchers have developed a new antibiotic using maggots which can be used to treat bugs including some strains of the drug-resistant bacteria MRSA, they announced Tuesday. The team from Swansea University in south Wales has created Seraticin, a drug made from the secretions of green...
BASLE, Switzerland AFP — Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced on Wednesday it had bought Protez Pharmaceuticals for 100 million dollars (64.8 million euros), thus acquiring the rights to a new antibiotic. The initial 100-million-dollar payment could be followed by up to another 300 million depending on the performance of...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has a new challenger, a center in the Purdue Research Park that became the sole North American producer of a potent antibiotic. The drug, Seromycin[R], had been developed earlier by Eli Lilly and Co., which, in turn, gave the park's Chao Center for...
Advanced Life Sciences Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADLS), Chicago, has announced the commencement of its collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAID, the lead governmental institute supporting biodefense research, under which the NIAID will conduct studies to evaluate cethromycin, the company's late-stage...
ABUJA AFP — Nigeria filed a new lawsuit Friday against US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claiming some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming from drug trials. Hours after dropping its original suit claiming seven billion dollars in damages, government lawyer Babatunde Irukera presented a new complaint to...
* Patent No. US 6,964,760 B2: The University of Florida Research Foundation, Gainesville, FL has patented an antimicrobial polypeptide, nucleic acid and their methods of use. The isolated antibiotic comprises SEQ ID NO:6.
HANOI AFP — Vietnam's seafood industry body protested against the decision of some southern US states to suspend the sale of Vietnamese basa catfish fillet products citing the presence of an antibiotic. The states were reported to have taken the action after some samples of the farmed product imported...
WASHINGTON AFP — A new antibiotic may speed up treatment of tuberculosis, the most deadly infectious disease in the world after AIDS, drugmaker Johnson and Johnson announced. The treatment, tested in mice, appeared to be safe in a preliminary study in healthy humans, the drugmaker said. "Scientists at...
'Loud and Clear' By Anna Quindlen Random House, $24.95. Anna Quindlen, who left her job as a New York Times columnist to become a novelist, is still writing columns, currently for Newsweek. And they are very good. She is also writing novels -- and...
Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A slideshow will be available at a later time WALTHAM, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 18, 2003 Merged Companies Combine Expertise to Create Leading Anti-Infectives Biopharmaceutical Company Launch of FDA-Approved FACTIVER (gemifloxacin...
PARIS AFP ? Experts believe they have found a molecular chink in the crippling lung disease known as cystic fibrosis, the British journal Nature reports. An inherited disease, cystic fibrosis is a disorder in which the lungs become clogged with a thick, gluey mucus inhabited by a bacterium, Pseudomonas...
By Naomi Aoki, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 18--Shares of Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. fell 46 percent yesterday on news that the company's antibiotic failed to prove it was as effective as a rival drug in treating a severe form of pneumonia....
HAMILTON, ON, Sep 18, 2000 An investigational new antibiotic, gemifloxacin mesylate (FactiveR), produced significant long-term clinical and health economic outcomes compared to clarithromycin in acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis AECB, according to a study involving McMaster University researchers and presented today at the...
It's supposed to be a bad bug season this summer. Arm yourself with these survival tips from the magazine Men's Health: Don't wear red, blue or black. These colors attract mosquitoes and bees. And load up on the garlic...
A new test that detects Ceftiofur, an antibiotic given to cows to treat mastitis, other respiratory diseases in cattle, pigs, poultry. It's quicker and easier than current methods used by FDA and USDA to check meat products to make sure they don't exceed residue ...
THE EUROPEAN Commission EC is proposing that the European Union EU ban all growth-promoting antibiotics in animal feed, as it also plans to tighten up regulations on other feed additives. The EC wants the four remaining antibiotics used to ...
DENVER -- Studies presented at the 45th Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy ("ICAAC") demonstrated that Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s ("Ceragenix" or the "Company") (OTCBB: CGXP) investigational antibacterial CSA-13 showed an excellent microbiology profile in laboratory studies against vancomycin resistant staph aureus ("VRSA"), vancomycin intermediate resistant staph aureus strains ("VISA"),...
IN ANOTHER strike against the market for growth-promoting antibiotics, the World Health Organization WHO has released a report that supports reducing the levels of antibiotics used in livestock. The WHO report examines the consequences of a IN ANOTHER...
McDonald's is directing some meat suppliers to stop using antibiotic growth promoters altogether and encouraging others to cut back. The policy, if realized, would be the broadest in the U.S. and focuses on the use of antibiotics in animal feed to sp McDonald's is directing some...
Animal health product manufacturers dodged a bullet recently when FDA decided against requiring animal drug manufacturers to gather and maintain detailed information on how antibiotics were being used in the production of food animals. For some time, the industry has reported overall animal antibiotic sales figures to FDA's Center for...
