MRSA Notes

I have been talking a little bit to a woman who has her own thoughts about what helped her rid herself of her MRSA infection. Before you write her thoughts off, you might consider them. What she is saying worked for her is not dangerous, so is worth a try in my book. [...]

This is great news in the fight against MRSA! In a University of Chicago study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists believe they have created a vaccine that offers significant protection from most of the strains of MRSA. Here are some specifics about the research:

Olaf [...]

Strange stuff coming down the pipeline in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I am not quite sure if this is a truly amazing discovery, or if times are getting desperate. LOL
Artificial peptides are being produced by scientists, using basic grammar rules to manipulate the genetic code, and improve and change their ability to [...]

Hibiclens has done a fantastic job revamping their website, and they are working very hard to promote MRSA awareness. I am a HUGE fan of Hibiclens, and recommend it to everyone I know who has been in touch with MRSA.
A representative of their company contacted me last week to let me know of [...]

This month, our channel-wide theme is the mission statement for our sites . We have a good many different sites in the Science & Health Channel - and I bet you will find as you read through them, most of our missions are pretty different. I could simply say that my mission here is to [...]

Targanta presented the Phase III studies of its lead product, Oritavancin, at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). The findings “show significant promise in combating a critical public health issue:”
The gory details of the study and presentation can be found here, and here is a little more about Oritavancin for us [...]

Duke University has released its study of the efficacy of Daptomycin (brand name Cubicin), a drug recently approved by the FDA for marketing to patients. This is the newest drug in the fight against MRSA.

The results showed daptomycin was as effective as standard therapy, Fowler said. Daptomycin was more successful at eliminating drug-resistant [...]

For a good while now, honey from the New Zealand Manuka bush has been reputed to have very good antibacterial effects, especially in regards to MRSA. Why would you want to use honey? The real reason is that using honey as opposed to a manufactured antibacterial treatment will hopefully not contribute to the [...]

A question I hear frequently: Why is silver used in bandages now and will that cure my MRSA?
Silver has been used for centuries as an antibacterial and as more antibiotics have been created and have been made accessible to the population, silver has fallen out of favor, as do many old fashioned products and [...]

Researchers are working hard to find new ways to fight MRSA and other resistant bacteria, and one of the ways they are doing it beyond just finding new chemicals that kill it and not you is by finding new and inventive ways to kill the bacteria. Merck is currently working on such a drug [...]