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Medical News Today
New research in mice suggests that "remodeling" an unhealthy microbiome into a healthy one could stave off chronic disease by improving cholesterol.
Using peptides, scientists turned an unhealthy gut microbiome into a healthy gut that worked to help reduce cholesterol. This, they say, may help ward off certain diseases.
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USA Today
A strain of salmonella Newport in some beef in the U.S. and in some soft cheeses in Mexico has been found to be resistant to antibiotic treatment, according to a release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported the results of a study conducted on salmonella Newport that was not responding to two oral agents that are frequently recommended to treat Salmonella infections.
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Healio
Interest in monitoring hand hygiene compliance using automated technology has “increased substantially” in recent years, according to researchers, who found that not all electronic hand hygiene monitoring systems are created equal. “While there is a lot of excitement around these automated systems from the infection prevention community and hospital leaders, the products vary substantially,” Dr. Michelle E. Doll, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and associate hospital epidemiologist at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, told Infectious Disease News.
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NYU Langone Health/NYU School of Medicine via ScienceDaily
A review of the autopsy reports of 252 men and women who died of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in New York City between 1984 and 2016 reveals several long-term trends in combatting the epidemic. The infectious disease is known for drastically lowering the body's immune defenses and is spread by HIV.
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Salk Institute via ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a new tool — dubbed SATI — to edit the mouse genome, enabling the team to target a broad range of mutations and cell types. The new genome-editing technology could be expanded for use in a broad range of gene mutation conditions such as Huntington's disease and the rare premature aging syndrome, progeria.
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Military Times
As the military medical community fights the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant germs, a military medical historian painted a stark picture of the worst-case scenario — the stench and agony of field hospital wards in the pre-antibiotic days of World War I.
The failure of antibiotic therapy as an option is "probably the most serious and frightening thing that I’m conscious of,” said Emily Mayhew, a military medical historian who is historian in residence in the department of bioengineering at the Imperial College of London.
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American Medical Technologists
Enhance your credentials to work in the rapidly expanding field of molecular diagnostics.
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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Medical News Today
New research in mice suggests that targeting a particular protein in the spinal cord could form the basis of a new pain relief medication that could relieve chronic pain for thousands of people.
About one-fifth of adults in the United States are living with chronic pain, which is a pain that lasts for longer than three months.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests. Learn more
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Dark Daily
Healthcare continues to struggle with the issue of how much to disclose to the public when new and deadly infectious agents are identified in a limited number of patients. Timely disclosure of new pathogens is a matter of great concern to clinical laboratory scientists, microbiologists and clinical pathologists because their laboratories get specimens from infected patients and they must correctly identify rare or emerging pathogens to help minimize the spread of disease.
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