Antibiotics
3 scientists share Nobel Chemistry Prize for DNA work
October 07, 2009By Tom Rivers Two Americans and one Israeli share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing how the DNA code is translated into life itself. Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath from Israel were all...
Pre-dental antibiotics only for some
October 05, 2007The American Heart Association recommends antibiotics before dental procedures only for specific types of patients, a U.S. newsletter reports. Only patients who have an artificial heart valve, have had endocarditis, or have had a heart transplant...
Drug resistance gene in U.S. Midwest
September 21, 2007A drug resistance gene that allows bacteria to repel certain antibiotics has started to appear in microorganisms taken from Midwestern U.S. patients. Less than a decade ago, scientists first noticed the BlaKPC gene in bacteria taken from East Coast...