Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the link between consumption of fish...
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Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat
Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM) Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree of cooling depends greatly on...
Young athletes interested in healthy protein, not French fries
The greasy food being served at hockey rinks isn't really what young hockey players want, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The...
Addition precautions at hospital don’t help prevent spread of resistant bacteria
Madrid, Spain: Contact precautions, used in addition to the standard precautions, the basic level of infection control applied to all patients, did not limit or...
Multiple sclerosis may be linked to sheep disease toxin
Exposure to a toxin primarily found in sheep could be linked to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans, new research suggests. Carried out...
Researchers describe role of novel mutations in fosfomycin resistance
Madrid, Spain: Researchers identified novel chromosomal mutations and described their role in the development of resistance of Escherichia coli (E. coli) to broad-spectrum antibiotic fosfomycin,...
Shorter courses of prostate cancer radiotherapy are safe and effective
Barcelona, Spain: Radiotherapy given in high doses over a shorter period of time is safe and effective for prostate cancer patients, according to research presented...
Targeted radiotherapy for breast cancer offers good quality of life and fewer side effects
Barcelona, Spain: Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation - is at least as...
Gene linked to fatal outcomes in P. aeruginosa BSI may be used as marker, target
Madrid, Spain: Researchers discovered an easily measured gene linked to a high fatality rate, which could be used as a novel prognostic biomarker in patients...
6-day antibiotic cellulitis therapy results in faster, greater relapse than 12-day course
Madrid, Spain: Cellulitis treated with a six-day course of intravenous antibiotic flucloxacillin resulted in greater rates of relapse at 90 days post treatment despite having...
Seven-day antibiotic course delivers similar outcomes to 14-days for Gram-negative bacteraemia
Madrid, Spain: A seven-day course of antibiotic treatment for Gram-negative bacteraemia (GNB), a serious infection that occurs when bacteria get into the bloodstream, was shown...
Correcting tiny differences in patient’s position for radiotherapy could increase survival chances
Barcelona, Spain: Very small differences in the way a patient lies during radiotherapy treatment for lung or oesophageal cancer can have an impact on how...
Avoid piperacillin-tazobactam when treating BSI cause by ceftriaxone-resistant pathogens
Madrid, Spain: The antibiotic combination treatment piperacillin-tazobactam was significantly less effective than meropenem when treating potentially fatal bloodstream infections (BSI) caused by ceftr..
E. coli’s internal bomb may provide novel target for treatment strategy
Madrid, Spain: Bacteria's internal bomb, the so-called toxin-antitoxin (TA) system that is part of the normal bacterial makeup, may be triggered to make bacteria turn...
Measles serious threat for babies, toddlers, unvaccinated youths, ECDC says
Madrid, Spain: The vast majority of measles cases in Europe were reported in unvaccinated patients, and children younger than two years old were at a...
