**Antibiotic** resistance discovered in the guts of ancient mummies …

Jul 8, 2016 … The gut bacteria inside 1000-year-old mummies from the Inca Empire are resistant to most of today's antibiotics, even though we only …
Tourists pick up **antibiotic**-resistance genes in just two days | New …

Jun 24, 2016 … Stool samples from 122 travellers showed that the proportion of antibiotic– resistance genes in their gut bacteria increased from below 10 per …
Resistance to last-resort **antibiotic** has now spread across globe …

Dec 7, 2015 … A gene that allows bacteria to resist one of our last effective antibiotics has been found in Denmark and China, prompting a worldwide search.
Bacteria now resistant even to 'last resort' **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Nov 18, 2015 … Well that's ironic. As if to mark World Antibiotic Awareness Week, antibiotic resistance just got a whole lot scarier. Resistance genes identified in …
**Antibiotics** | New Scientist

When you travel to countries such as South Korea, India and China, it takes just days for your gut flora to acquire genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Use vaccines as a weapon against **antibiotic**-resistant bacteria …

Feb 11, 2016 … If you pre-empt a bacterial infection by vaccinating against it, you can cut antibiotic use and the rise of resistance, says a UK government …
I'm finding new ways to beat **antibiotic** resistance | New Scientist

Mar 22, 2016 … With healthcare systems and food industries threatened by increasingly tough microbes, Timothy Leighton aims to outflank the enemy.
**Antibiotics** apocalypse: Tales from fighters on the front line | New …

Apr 27, 2016 … Our hospitals could one day be brought to their knees by antibiotic-resistant superbugs – doctors and scientists are seeing the first glimpse of …
MRSA superbug's resistance to **antibiotics** is broken | New Scientist

Mar 9, 2016 … Two compounds can make MRSA vulnerable to the drugs they normally resist, showing that antibiotic resistance can be beaten.
**Antibiotic**-resistant superbugs now a global epidemic | New Scientist

Apr 30, 2014 … The first global review of antibiotic resistance is devastating – and we may run out of antibioticsbefore we can measure the full scope of the …

Treating cows with **antibiotics** doubles dung methane emissions …

May 25, 2016 … Antibiotic-treated cows are bad news for climate and possibly ecosystems, because the drugs play havoc with microbes living inside dung …
Named: Hotspots in England where **antibiotics** are overprescribed …

Nov 12, 2015 … The country's worst areas for antibiotic misuse include deprived areas in Essex, Lincolnshire and Norfolk, as well as wealthy Chelsea.
Crisis in **antibiotic** resistance could be slowed by blood test | New …

Jan 20, 2016 … A test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections could prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics that speeds the rise of drug …
**Antibiotic** resistance an 'apocalyptic threat' | New Scientist

Mar 11, 2013 … Antibiotics to fight the global spread of deadly bacteria are out there already but they are being stymied by unrealistic regulatory requirements …
Superbug risk from tonnes of **antibiotics** fed to animals | New Scientist

Mar 23, 2015 … A side of superbugs with your fried chicken? Farm animals are fed 63000 tonnes of antibiotics a year, exacerbating the problem of antibiotic …
**Antibiotic** ban cuts drug resistant bugs | New Scientist

Aug 13, 2003 … The WHO reports that a Danish ban on antibiotic growth promoters in livestock cost farmers little, but slashed drug resistance.
New **antibiotic** could work for 30 years – if used right | New Scientist

Jan 7, 2015 … An antibiotic discovered using a method that coaxes "unculturable" bacteria to grow in the lab could have a longer lifespan than current drugs.
Global study reveals soaring **antibiotic** resistance in India | New …

Sep 17, 2015 … Antibiotic resistance rates are so high in some regions that new drugs may not work unless misuse of antibiotics stops, say researchers.
It's safe to prescribe fewer **antibiotics** for coughs and colds | New …

Jul 5, 2016 … A study of 610 general practices has found that efforts to curb the spread of antibiotic resistance do not lead to more complications like …
Keep **antibiotics** useful: A new year's resolution for all of us | New …

Dec 30, 2015 … With antibiotic resistance on the rise, we cannot continue to be so profligate with these drugs. And we can all do our part to prevent misuse.

**Antibiotics** linked to huge rise in allergies | New Scientist

May 27, 2004 … By James Randerson, New Orleans. The increasing use of antibiotics to treat disease may be responsible for the rising rates of asthma and …
Doctors 'nudged' into prescribing far fewer **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Sep 15, 2016 … Sending a subtle letter to 800 GP practices has reduced antibiotic prescriptions by more than 73000, the UK “nudge unit” has claimed.
Anti-**antibiotics**: Bugs, drugs and bureaucrats | New Scientist

Sep 29, 2010 … Why are drug regulatory agencies discouraging the development of new antibiotics?
Doctors must crack down on **antibiotics** – or face punishment | New …

Aug 19, 2015 … GPs in the UK are being told to push back against people who demand antibiotics, in a move to cut prescriptions by a quarter.
Why **antibiotics** are WMDs to our bodies' microbes | New Scientist

May 21, 2014 … Antibiotics have ended untold human misery by curing bacterial infections, yet we are losing these wonder drugs, Martin Blaser explains why in …
NHS game-changers: The **antibiotic** apocalypse | New Scientist

Mar 18, 2015 … At the last UK general election, the threat of antibiotic resistance was barely a blip in the public consciousness, let alone occupying the thoughts …
**Antibiotic** abyss: The extreme quest for new medicines | New Scientist

Jan 22, 2014 … As antibiotic resistance increases, audacious expeditions are taking the quest for new medicines to the ocean depths. Not a moment too soon, …
Superbug crisis: Global push to save **antibiotics** begins | New Scientist

May 20, 2014 … Bacteria increasingly laugh off antibiotics. To encourage research, this week a WHO meeting will endorse a plan to shake up how big pharma …
**Antibiotic** speeds recovery from asthma attacks | New Scientist

Apr 13, 2006 … A clinical trial of an antibiotic used to treat bronchitis suggests that the drug may have a soothing effect on the lungs of people with asthma.
CDC warns of future catastrophic **antibiotic** resistance | New Scientist

Sep 17, 2013 … Overuse of antibiotics in hospitals and on farms has lead to a severe threat from superbugs that kill 23000 people in the US each year.

Resistance to last-resort **antibiotic** has now spread across globe …

Dec 9, 2015 … THE final drug has fallen. Bacteria carrying a gene that allows them to resist our last-resort antibiotics, called polymyxins, have been found in …
Vital **antibiotics** research needs radical new incentives | New Scientist

May 19, 2015 … A panel on antibiotics set up by the UK government says the world needs a global authority to pay drug companies to develop new antibacterial …
Resurrected ancient protein is a potent **antibiotic** | New Scientist

Sep 21, 2011 … Resurrected ancient protein is a potent antibiotic. By Wendy Zukerman. How clean is my pouch? IF MODERN medicine cannot provide an …
Averting the **antibiotics** apocalypse now | New Scientist

Mar 13, 2013 … IF YOU'RE reading this article, antibiotics have probably saved your life – and not once but several times. A rotten tooth, a knee operation, …
Bacteria defeat **antibiotics** they have never met before | New Scientist

Feb 27, 2013 … If one simple mutation allows bacteria to resist antibiotics they've never met, diseases like TB could become untreatable once again.
**Antibiotics** may make you fat | New Scientist

Mar 28, 2012 … The widespread use of antibiotics may permanently change our gut flora, increasing our risk of obesity and damaging our immune systems.
Tourists pick up **antibiotic**-resistance genes in just two days | New …

Jun 29, 2016 … Tourists pick up antibiotic-resistance genes in just two days. travel bug. Jasper James/Getty. BEWARE the travel bug. In a matter of days after …
**Antibiotics** are wonder drugs no more | New Scientist

Mar 28, 2012 … The side effects of antibiotics may make the war on hostile bacteria trickier to wage than ever.
**Antibiotic** chemicals found in sweat | New Scientist

Nov 5, 2001 … Antibiotic chemicals found in sweat. By James Randerson. Sweating appears to be an essential part of the body's defence against bacteria, …
Don't let up in war against **antibiotic** resistance | New Scientist

Apr 30, 2012 … There is fresh hope in the global battle to tackle the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Let's press home the advantage, says Shelley Hearne.

Citizen scientists sift soil for new **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Jan 20, 2015 … Volunteers around the world are helping researchers hunt for earth-dwelling bacteria that could yield a much-need antibiotic breakthrough.
**Antibiotics** | Page 3 of 10 | New Scientist

When bacteria acquire antibiotic-resistance genes they become better at surviving in the body, challenging the dogma that resistance comes with a cost.
Soil 'ultra-bugs' thrive on a diet of **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Apr 3, 2008 … Call them the “ultra-bugs” – bacteria that are not merely resistant to antibiotics, but feed on them. They lurk in dirt from parks, farms and gardens …
**Antibiotic** resistance action could be "too late" | New Scientist

Apr 23, 2002 … By Debora MacKenzie. Waiting for antibiotic resistance to emerge in humans before banning a drug's use as growth promoters in livestock is …
**Antibiotics** | Page 2 of 10 | New Scientist

If you pre-empt a bacterial infection by vaccinating against it, you can cut antibiotic use and the rise of resistance, says a UK government advisory panel.
Big pharma market forces won't save us from superbugs | New …

May 21, 2014 … Antibiotics don't make much money but we desperately need new ones. That means transforming pharma companies into public goods …
**Antibiotic** resistance predates drugs – by 30,000 years | New Scientist

Aug 31, 2011 … A study of ancient bacteria preserved in Canadian permafrost confirms that antibiotic resistance genes have an ancient history.
Wrap brain in **antibiotic** film to protect after surgery | New Scientist

Sep 4, 2013 … An antibiotic-laced polymer placed over the brain during surgery releases its drug slowly and effectively, melting away as it keeps bacteria at …
Superbugs resist "last resort" **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Jun 18, 2004 … By Shaoni Bhattacharya. Hospital superbugs with resistance to a “last resort” antibiotic have emerged independently in at least eight different …
Chinese pig farms breed drug-resistant bacteria | New Scientist

Feb 13, 2013 … Half of all pigs live in China – and well over half of them eat feed laced with antibiotic “growth promoters”. Now Chinese and US researchers …

US to phase out **antibiotics** for fattening livestock | New Scientist

Dec 12, 2013 … To help quell antibiotic resistance, the US Food and Drug Administration has asked for the drugs to be labelled as not for use as growth …
Cancer drugs might fight **antibiotic** resistance | New Scientist

Jan 21, 2009 … Antibiotic resistance often emerges when bacteria evolve methods of destroying particular drugs or pumping them out of their cells. But some …
**Antibiotic** crisis | New Scientist

Mar 26, 2013 … From Laura Piddock, Deputy director of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, and director of Antibiotic Action.
Superbugs slain by soil **antibiotic** | New Scientist

May 17, 2006 … Soil bacteria from South Africa have yielded an antibiotic that kills usually immune bacteria.
Invention: Excrement **antibiotic** | New Scientist

Nov 12, 2008 … The Pusan team claims that muskrat excrement contains a potent antibiotic that can kill the Salmonella bacteria that are a common cause of …
Engineering the future of **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Apr 30, 1994 … Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 antibiotics have fought bacterial infection . But resistance to these traditional antibiotics is forcing …
New **antibiotic**-resistant superbug found | New Scientist

Jul 23, 2002 … Doctors detect the first S aureus bacteria that are highly resistant to vancomycin, the antibiotic of last resort.
Anglo-Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA | New Scientist

Mar 30, 2015 … This is an antibiotic-resistant version of the bacteria that causes styes, more commonly known as the hospital superbug MRSA. The potion …
Superbugs may be here to stay | New Scientist

Jul 29, 2011 … Multidrug-resistant bacteria may be here to stay. The common wisdom that superbugs with antibiotic resistance are outcompeted by their …
**Antibiotic** hope | New Scientist

Apr 3, 2013 … Antibiotic hope. From John Playfair, Emeritus professor of immunology, UCL Medical School. It is unsurprising that bacterial resistance, …

Germ warfare – Household cleaners help bugs dodge **antibiotic** …

Dec 20, 1997 … DISINFECTANTS in homes and hospitals may help bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, a new study suggests.Antibiotic resistance often …
**Antibiotic** protest | New Scientist

Mar 20, 1999 … Health and consumer groups last week called on the US Food and Drug Administration to ban the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed.
Kids' **antibiotic** prescriptions fall in the US | New Scientist

Jun 20, 2012 … Warnings about antibiotic overuse appear to have been heard in the US, where prescriptions for children dropped by 14 per cent between …
Europe pushes to ban **antibiotic** down on the farm | New Scientist

Dec 21, 1996 … FEARS of an epidemic of deadly "superbugs" have prompted the European Commission to propose a Europe-wide ban on a drug routinely …
Germ-killing molecules identified in alligator blood | New Scientist

Mar 2, 2015 … Their discovery in the blood of the American alligator might even pave the way for a new generation of antibiotics. Crocodilians have existed on …
Thistle diary : **Antibiotic** resistance and dirty ships – More comment …

Sep 14, 1996 … EUROPE is embroiled in a battle between free trade and human health, reported Andy Coghlan (This Week, 27 July, p 7). At the heart of the …
**Antibiotic**-boosting drug kills superbugs | New Scientist

Oct 15, 2004 … A UK company claims to have discovered a compound that renders the lethal MRSA superbug vulnerable to the antibiotic it normally resists.
Editorial: TB breaks free of **antibiotic** control | New Scientist

Mar 21, 2007 … Tuberculosis has broken free of antibiotic control, a fact that could affect us all. The bacterium that causes TB is staggeringly common, infecting …
**Antibiotic's** star role as HIV wonder drug | New Scientist

Nov 24, 2004 … Antibiotic's star role as HIV wonder drug. By Andy Coghlan. IT HAS been used for decades to treat minor infections, and

Cheap **antibiotic** slashes AIDS-related deaths | New Scientist
Nov 19, 2004 … By Andy Coghlan. A cheap antibiotic drug has almost halved the rate of AIDS- related deaths in African children, reveals a new study.
**Antibiotic** advice | New Scientist
Jul 15, 2009 … Karl Hoenke questions whether we should adhere to the medical orthodoxy of completing a course of antibiotics, suggesting that this might …
Anthrax **antibiotics** stockpiled around the world | New Scientist
Oct 15, 2001 … The US plans to multiply stocks by six times, but concerns surface over raising antibiotic resistance in common bacteria.
Superbug spreads in Delhi sewers | New Scientist
Apr 7, 2011 … A gene that makes bacteria invulnerable to many antibiotics, including drugs of last resort, has just got a lot scarier. It was thought to pose a …
New weapon against superbugs destroys **antibiotics** | New Scientist
Oct 23, 2003 … By Andy Coghlan. Mad as it sounds, the latest weapon against superbugs might be a pill that destroys antibiotics. When people take an …
Hooked on drugs – Farm animals given **antibiotics** need less food to …
Jan 18, 1997 … Hooked on drugs – Farm animals given antibiotics need less food to grow. Is this use of drugs destroying a key weapon against human disease …
Superbug gonorrhoea found in Japan | New Scientist
Jul 13, 2011 … A drug-resistant strain of gonorrhoea, proof against all existing antibiotics, could go global in 10 years.
More **antibiotics** may not always be better | New Scientist
Apr 23, 2013 … A new study questions conventional wisdom on antibiotics – that a course should be taken to completion and that drug combinations can be …
UTI bacteria use hooks to hang on inside you when you pee | New …

Mar 7, 2016 … The discovery is useful because it could mean urinary tract infections could be treated without antibiotics. Drugs that target this machinery …
Gut bacteria influence the birth of new brain cells in mice | New …

May 19, 2016 … A long course of antibiotics that wipe out gut bacteria disrupts the growth of brain cells in mice – an effect that can be reversed with exercise or …
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Short Sharp Science: Does NDM-1 herald the end of the **antibiotic** …

Aug 12, 2010 … The spread of a drug-resistant bacterial gene could herald the end of antibiotics, researchers warned us yeterday. "In many ways this is it," Tim …

Resistant bacteria don't just evade drugs – they are fitter too | New …

Jul 24, 2015 … When bacteria acquire antibiotic-resistance genes they become better at surviving in the body, challenging the dogma that resistance comes …
Viruses could kill superbugs that **antibiotics** can't | New Scientist

Apr 22, 2009 … A VIRUS that gobbles up the bacteria that cause debilitating ear infections could become the next weapon against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, …
Novel **antibiotics** hunted with microwaves | New Scientist

Sep 10, 2006 … Such compounds are less likely to cause antibiotic resistance because they do not directly influence bacterial growth, say the researchers, who …
FDA bans some – but not all – farmyard **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Jan 11, 2012 … PREVENTION is not always better than cure. The US Food and Drug Administration has finally moved to restrict the farmyard use of antibiotics …
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With antibiotics, we solved the fatal puzzle of bacterial infections. Now we must do it again as we face widespread antibiotic resistance.
Why super-gonorrhoea is spreading and may soon be untreatable …

Apr 19, 2016 … Gonorrhoea, also known as “the clap”, was largely controlled by antibiotics after the second world war. But the bacteria readily acquire genes …
WHO demands action on drug-resistant gonorrhoea | New Scientist

Jun 12, 2012 … Between the limited profits to be made from drugs that cure infections and the previous success of antibiotics against gonorrhoea, there has …
First world war dysentery bug was penicillin-resistant | New Scientist

Nov 7, 2014 … A dysentery bug called Shigella that killed a soldier in 1915 was resistant to penicillin 13 years before the antibiotic was discovered.
World war on superbugs can only be won by a UN-led global effort …

Sep 22, 2016 … Antibiotic resistance is now such a big threat that only a global campaign akin to that on HIV can tackle it, say Dilip Nathwani and Ramanan …
Pressure to tighten up **antibiotics** on US farms | New Scientist

Mar 27, 2012 … Farmers in the US may soon be banned from giving antibiotics to healthy animals to prevent spread of drug resistance.

Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten **antibiotics** | New Scientist

Dec 11, 2013 … So why have doctors turned their backs on these two potent germ killers? By Frank Swain. Fresh air and sunshine: The forgotten antibiotics.
New Scientist Short Sharp Science Blog: Malaria meds have knock …

Jul 16, 2008 … And in everyone's list of the top 10 would have to be antibiotics. Bacterial infections – in wounds, guts and lungs mostly – are what humans used …
Nano-levers could speed up hunt for superbug drugs | New Scientist

Oct 12, 2008 … Nanoscale cantilevers could be used to test new antibiotics. Blue molecules of the powerful antibiotic vancomycin grab hold of bacterial …
Cosy quilts made of killer superbugs | New Scientist

Oct 18, 2013 … Fascinated by germs and antibiotic resistance, artist Anna Dumitriu makes beautiful textiles from deadly bacteria.
Sleeper cells: How to fight bacteria that play dead | New Scientist

Mar 28, 2012 … Our strongest antibiotics are being thwarted by microbes that can lie dormant, only to reawaken once the threat has passed.
Mining the hidden treasure of the world's unknown bacteria | New …

Dec 30, 2015 … Almost every known antibiotic came from 1 per cent of bacteria. Now we are learning how to grow the unknown microbes, and who knows what …
Chilli-eating chickens repel bacteria | New Scientist

Aug 20, 2001 … The spicy pepper's active ingredient could keep poultry clean without antibiotics.
Faecal bacteria cocktail treats superbug infection | New Scientist

Jan 9, 2013 … The usual treatment for the infection, which affects over half a million people in the US each year, involves a strong course of antibiotics. But the …
New MRSA superbug discovered in cows' milk | New Scientist

Jun 3, 2011 … A new strain of antibiotic-resistant MRSA found in cows' milk and humans will not be picked up by some screening tests.
Tamar Ghosh

Tamar works at Nesta and is encouraging the development of a novel, point-of- care diagnostic test that can be used globally to fight antibiotic resistance.

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