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29 April 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
According to Rutgers researchers, physicians are scaling back on prescribing antibiotics for long-term acne treatment in favour of a combination of therapies.
29 March 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The pharmaceutical industry needs to match words with action on researching new antibiotics to address the threat posed by drug-resistant superbugs...
26 February 2019 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
The global antibiotics market is set to increase at a CAGR of 4 percent to $62.06 billion, due to the rising prevalence of infectious diseases...
21 February 2019 | By Hyglos-bioMerieux
This article covers the analytical criteria that apply to Bacterial Endotoxin Testing (BET) using Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) or recombinant Horseshoe crab Factor C (rFC) for the bioactivity determination of endotoxin in aqueous solutions, such as pharmaceuticals and medical device extracts. It explains the importance of these criteria for accurate…
28 September 2018 | By Mike Stones
The next five years will see game-changing improvements made in upstream, downstream and continuous bioprocessing, predicts one industry specialist...
28 June 2018 | By Merck
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are widely manufactured by many biopharmaceutical companies to treat a myriad of diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ulcerative colitis, and many types of cancers...
20 June 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Researchers have identified a new compound that in preliminary testing has shown itself to be as effective as antibiotics approved by the FDA to treat life-threatening infections while also appearing to be less susceptible to bacterial resistance.
14 May 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Paediatric researchers have found that children and adults treated with some oral antibiotics have a significantly higher risk of developing kidney stones...
28 March 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Killing gut bacteria with drugs weakens immune response...
16 March 2018 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Scientists in Germany have developed a test using electric fields and Raman spectroscopy to ascertain specific antibiotic resistance of pathogens and thus enable the prescription of effective treatment.
6 March 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Improper use of antibiotics may have an unintended consequence of hampering cancer treatments...
1 March 2018 | By Dr Payam Behzadi
In parallel with the use of a wide range of antibiotics for treating infectious diseases worldwide, antimicrobial resistance has significantly increased. For this reason, the application of an advanced pangenomic technique like DNA microarray can be an effective, rapid, accurate, sensitive, specific and flexible methodology for detecting, identifying and determining…
7 February 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
Scientists and chemists are re-examining old compounds to see whether they could hold the key to a future drug to combat increasingly resistant bacteria...
22 January 2018 | By Dr Zara Kassam (European Pharmaceutical Review)
A team of computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can rapidly search massive databases to discover novel variants of known antibiotics...
14 December 2017 | By European Pharmaceutical Review
Two of the key organisations in the UK and Russia leading efforts to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have announced a formal agreement to work together.
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