Soils play an important role in the nutritional value of our food.
We’re in danger of losing the health benefits of soils faster than they are replaced.
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This research could provide an answer to some of the problems posed by antibiotic resistance.
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Antibiotics are wrongly being prescribed for infections where they won’t work and cutting this down could help combat resistance. But change isn’t as easy as just providing the means.
Estuaries are natural filtering points between freshwater and the ocean where pollutants tend to accumulate.
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Unless we do something about about antibiotic pollution in the world’s waterways, the next trip you take to the coast for a seafood dinner just might be your last.
People mainly think of GPs over-prescribing antibiotics, but ubiquitous use in farming and other areas also contributes to resistance in bacteria.
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We need a concentrated and coordinated effort by government and scientists if we’re to stave off the threat of antimicrobial resistant bacteria.
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Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat that causes almost 700,000 deaths a year, and its toll is expected to grow. Here are some things you can do to offer your own resistance.
According to the World Health Organisation, antimicrobial resistance is now at crisis point.
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The US Centers for Disease Control has reported a woman in her 70s has died of overwhelming sepsis caused by a bacterium that was resistant to all available antibiotics.
E. Coli bacteria.
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The discovery that the nervous system plays a crucial role in the immune response may lead to new treatments for bacterial infections.
Pathogens like malaria get inside our cells - so an antibiotic to combat them needs to as well.
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Doxycycline is an antibiotic drug that kills a wide, weird and wonderful range of bugs that are often difficult to treat with other antibiotics.
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The rise in size of your festive bird hides a chemical concern.
Antibiotic use is a big issue as the more we use, the more likely bugs are to grow resistant, rendering them useless.
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Health minister Sussan Ley said Australia’s use of antibiotics in general practice is 20% above the OECD average. Is that right?
In us, on us and all around us.
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Long viewed simply as ‘germs,’ the hidden half of nature turns out to be crucial to the health of people and plants.
What does it mean when it’s too hard or too soft?
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For most of us, the form of stool we excrete can vary widely depending, in part, on what we’ve been doing.
The exact composition of each person’s microbiota is as unique as their finger prints.
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The make-up of our gut is constantly changing and affects everything from our immune system and digestion, to our brain function.
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Antibiotics that were not originally earmarked to treat TB have shown the first signs of effectiveness and could be added to the much-needed arsenal of drugs to fight the deadly disease.
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Why US$790m is not enough to win the war against antibiotic resistance.
Manuka honey’s antimicrobial effects are well understood.
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Manuka honey could prevent serious urinary tract infections caused by catheters – tubes used to drain patients’ bladders, new laboratory research has found.
Many antibiotics simply no longer work.
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There’s one important piece of the puzzle we’re missing when it comes to antimicrobial resistance.
A contaminated water sign on the sand following a rainstorm in Imperial Beach, California, December 2014.
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Resistant bacteria enter our aging sewer infrastructure and may eventually end up in the environment through sewage spills.
Close-up of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
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Poor testing methods and antibiotic use by GPs and urologists has left thousands of women with crippling infections.