Tag: bacteria

Good Cop/Bad Cop, Bacteria Style: How Probiotics Work And Why You Should Be Eating More Of Them

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Good Cop/Bad Cop, Bacteria Style: How Probiotics Work And Why You Should Be Eating More Of Them
How Bugs Can Help You Feel Better And Be Healthier: Probiotics And The Benefits Of ‘Good Bacteria’ It would be hard to quantify just how much time, energy and money is spent in the U.S. and the rest of the world fighting against bacteria. Anti-bacterial soap, mouthwash, hand sanitizer, sheets, underwear–the list goes on. But not all bacteria is created equal.… Read the rest

CDC Issues Warning To Anyone Who Has Had Heart Surgery Since 2012: Deadly Bacterial Infection Possible

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CDC Issues Warning To Anyone Who Has Had Heart Surgery Since 2012: Deadly Bacterial Infection Possible
CDC: Deadly Bacterial Infection Possible From Heart Surgery: Medical Devices May Be The Cause Anyone who has undergone heart surgery or who has had a loved one under the knife for such a procedure knows how frightening it can be. Even with modern techniques and technology, it is still a somewhat harrowing set of procedures that is approached with hope but caution.… Read the rest

Body Fat Link To Levels Of Bacteria In Feces Shows Possibility Of Explaining Inherited Obesity

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Body Fat Link To Levels Of Bacteria In Feces Shows Possibility Of Explaining Inherited Obesity
Body Fat And Bacteria In Feces: How A Link May Show Us Where To Look For Inherited Obesity Connection A new study coming from the U.K. is showing that the composition of the bacteria found in human feces may influence the levels of dangerous types of fat we have in our bodies. The research could lead to breakthroughs on how and why obesity is passed along in families as well.… Read the rest

A Honey Of A Deal: Freaky New Zealand Strain Of Honey Shows Unique Antibacterial Qualities

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A Honey Of A Deal: Freaky New Zealand Strain Of Honey Shows Unique Antibacterial Qualities
Uniquely Antibacterial Honey From New Zealand May Hold The Key To Antibiotic Resistance For those of us from the northern hemisphere, often New Zealand is a forgotten cousin of Australia. Many of us have only glimpsed the 200,000 square kilometer nation of nearly 5 million people through Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, or perhaps the comedy show Flight of the Conchords.… Read the rest

Deadly Care: New Study Outlines Just How Dangerous Hospitals Are To Your Health

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Deadly Care: New Study Outlines Just How Dangerous Hospitals Are To Your Health
Hospitals Kill People: New Study Shows Just How Deadly Hospitals Have Become When they asked Willie Sutton why he kept robbing banks, his terse reply was, “Because that’s where the money is.” In the same vein, it turns out that hospitals are deadly. Why? Well, because they’re full of sick people, to begin with. But it goes much deeper than that, and it may not be for the reasons you think.… Read the rest

Engineering A Frightening Mosquito-Borne Cure: Chinese Scientists Release Some 3 Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Every Week Trying To Kill Dengue, Zika

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Engineering A Frightening Mosquito-Borne Cure: Chinese Scientists Release Some 3 Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Every Week Trying To Kill Dengue, Zika
That’s A Lot Of Bugs: Chinese Scientists Release Some 3 Million Mosquitoes Injected With Bacteria Each Week In A Bid To Kill Dengue, Zika Virus Beware of scientists who come bearing mosquitoes. There is a secretive program ongoing in China right now, in which scientists are attempting to use mosquitoes’ ability to rapidly breed against them in a bid to kill dengue fever, yellow fever and even the Zika virus.… Read the rest

A Gut Feeling: Research Demonstrates That Invasive Microbes In Our Gut Biome May Have More Sway Over Our Food Choices Than We Think

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A Gut Feeling: Research Demonstrates That Invasive Microbes In Our Gut Biome May Have More Sway Over Our Food Choices Than We Think
Thinking With Your Gut: Alarming New Study Suggests That The Microbes In Our Gut May Be In Charge Of What We ‘Choose’ To Eat, Contribute To Obesity In the classic Hollywood schlock sci-fi/horror film versions of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” people were replicated and replaced by alien pod people who looked and sounded more or less like their human counterparts, but who were driven by a separate, extraterrestrial agenda of their own.… Read the rest

Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria Reaching Crisis Levels: Alarming Rise In Cases Of Sepsis May Herald True Crisis
Crisis of Drug-Resistant Bacteria: Routine Infections Becoming More And More Untreatable If you’re not in the medical profession, chances are you’ve probably never heard a lot about sepsis in your lifetime. Barring a vague notion you picked up from medical dramas on television that it is some kind of disease, you probably never think about it at all. But we may be on the verge of hearing a whole lot more about sepsis, and many other formerly routine infections.… Read the rest

CDC Warns Of Multi-State Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection, Warnings Issued For Hospital-Bound Immuno-Suppressed People

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CDC Warns Of Multi-State Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection, Warnings Issued For Hospital-Bound Immuno-Suppressed People
CDC Warning: New Outbreak Of Burkholderia Cepacia Infection Could Be Life-Threatening To The Immuno-Suppressed Hospital stays are notoriously dangerous. Not only do you face the very real possibility that going under the knife could result in you having the wrong limb removed, or worse, a brain operation on the wrong side, as happened not once, not twice, but three times in a year at one hospital in Rhode Island, you also face the possibility of contracting a nasty infection.… Read the rest