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Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues

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80% of antibiotics worldwide are used in veterinary medicine. With only a minor fraction metabolized to inactive compounds, there are plenty of antibiotics excreted by farm animals in unchanged active form. These antibiotic residues are found in manure, in the soil onto which manure is sprayed, tilled in, or in the Continue reading Food for Thought, Sprinkled With Small Amounts of Antibiotic Residues→

There is Momentum Building for RSV Therapeutics

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Sometimes – for no obvious reason – there is a flurry of publications from a particular area which has been quiet for a long time.  RSV is such an area where new drug development had a hard time getting started.  There was always the lure of big money: an infection Continue reading There is Momentum Building for RSV Therapeutics→

Ibuprofen For uUTI: Interesting Pilot Trial But More to Come Soon

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At the recent AMDAC, the frequent mention of an unusual uUTI study caught my attention.  In their review of placebo-controlled trials, FDA mentioned a study comparing ciprofloxacin with Ibuprofen (Motrin), an NSAID drug without any antibacterial activity[1].  By the outcome of total symptom relief, there was no difference. Obviously, there Continue reading Ibuprofen For uUTI: Interesting Pilot Trial But More to Come Soon→