joining me now is our medical editor, fergus walsh. how excited should we be by this? this is promising and a bit of good news. research published in the journal nature, its over 50 years since we had a new class of antibiotic against this type of bacterium. the book in question is resistant, acinetobacter baumannii, or crab for short. crab thrives in hospitals where patients are already immune suppressed. they may have blood infections, be in intensive care, and it has a mortality rate of around 50% because there are so few drugs to treat it. now, this particular antibiotic in trials in the labs and in mice, it killed the bacterium. now, in humans, we are a long way off from having a new one that we can use in hospitals, it
in the tech lead, what could be the next frontier in medical experiments. instead of lab test after lab test, researchers let artificial intelligence do the work. it found an antibiotic that seemed to be resistant to a superbug. i want to bring in john harlan for more on this. we ve talked about skepticism and concern about ai. this looks like it could really be beneficial. how does it work in lab experiments like this, john? is a drug resistant disease that is in hospital settings that comes on things like doorknobs that can cause skin infections and blood infections, and it can be deadly. traditional antibiotics are becoming increasingly resistant against it. that s why the cdc said in 2019 it s urgent for researchers to
Even though low blood pressure is a common condition that many people suffer from, many times it does not show any sign. Doctors say if not treated well in time, it can be life-threatening as well. Hence, a few common symptoms that happen should be taken seriously. Read on to know what these symptoms are and what are the conditions that lead to the situation. , Health News, Times Now
A fast, accurate test predicts who has a particular type of risky immune response to infection and is at risk from poorer outcomes in sepsis, COVID-19, or Influenza.