vancomycin: profile and news
What's lurking on our dinner plate? 17 May 2006
The bacteria are resistant to vancomycin, a last-resort drug used in hospitals to treat MRSA, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which can cause boils ... - Stuff.co.nz,
Theravance Enrolls Last Patient In Phase 3 Trial Of Telavancin In ... 17 May 2006
..."The design of the Phase 3 program gives us the opportunity to detect clinical superiority of telavancin over vancomycin, in the treatment of patients with ... - Trading Markets,
Officials say cases of TB pose no risk May 13, 2006
Four patients in the unit have tested positive for carrying vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, a bug that lives in the bowels of many people. ... - ChronicleHerald.ca,
'Superbugs' Spread Fear Far and Wide May 13, 2006
He was put into a drug-induced coma and given intravenous vancomycin, a drug that is known as the last line of defense against MRSA. ... - W*USA 9,
Ceragenix shows promise against MRSA biofilm May 9, 2006
...that Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals' ceragenin compound, CSA-13, was over 100 fold more effective in eradicating MRSA biofilm than the often used therapy, vancomycin ... - Pharmaceutical Business Review
Ceragenix Compound Demonstrates Activity Against MRSA Biofilm May 9, 2006
...its Ceragenin™ compound, CSA-13, was over 100 fold more effective in eradicating a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) biofilm than vancomycin ... - Medical News Today (press release),
Necrotizing Fasciitis Caused by Methicillin-Resistant ... May 1, 2006
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which was sensitive to vancomycin, minocycline, teicoplanin, and gentamicin, grew on culture of all blood and ... - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Bad Bugs, Few Drugs May 3, 2006
...infections. Vancomycin was long considered to be the only uniformly effective drug for methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). However ... - TCS Daily,
AGE NOT A CONTRAINDICATION FOR HEART VALVE REPAIR May 11, 2006
...most people. Those drugs are metronidazole or vancomycin. Both have good cure rates, but relapses can occur with either. If diarrhea ... - Charlotte Sun-Herald,
International Approvals: Tygacil, DepoDur, and Zyvox May 8, 2006
...yielded a cIAI cure rate comparable to that of imipenem plus cilastatin, and a cSSSI cure rate comparable to that of combination vancomycin/aztreonam therapy. ... - Medscape (subscription)
The Spread of 'Super-Bugs' May 11, 2006
...squash the bug. Dr. Speck continued, "Now we have to use Vancomycin to treat something that's Methicillin resistant. And there are ... - KLAS-TV,
Natural Products Reemerge May 10, 2006
He's even found antibiotic activity against vancomycin partially-resistant enterococci from a structure that nobody would ever have considered to have ... - Drug Discovery & Development (subscription),
Research office awards seed funding May 4, 2006
The objective of this proposal is to use novel in vitro models to predict optimal dosing regimens for the antibiotic vancomycin that will be effective in the ... - University at Buffalo Reporter,
Antimicrobial Prophylaxis to Prevent Surgical Site Infection May 1, 2006
Consider the following situation: a patient is allergic to penicillin, and the drug of choice may be vancomycin, which must be infused slowly. ... - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Alpharma's First Quarter Operating Income Grows 50% May 1, 2006
...in 2005. Revenues increased in 2006 principally due to the timing of customer orders, and increased sales of vancomycin. Revenues ... - MSN Money
ViroPharma Incorporated Reports First Quarter 2006 Financial ... May 4, 2006
...$0.4 million of which related to the Company's opposition to the attempt by the OGD to change the approach towards making vancomycin hydrochloride capsules ... - MSN Money
New antibiotic tackling multi-resistant germs found May 4, 2006
The new antibiotic not only inhibits the notorious strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), but also vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE ... - Xinhua,
Immunology & Infectious Disease - Healthy Careers May 4, 2006
Examples include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and ... - ScienceCareers.org,
ADVENTRX ANNOUNCES CLOSING OF MERGER WITH SD PHARMACEUTICALS May 1, 2006
...formulation of an approved oral antibiotic in the macrolide family known as clarithromycin; SDP-016, a novel formulation of vancomycin, a parenteral ... - Small Times
New Broad-spectrum Antibiotic Tygacil* (tigecycline) Receives ... May 4, 2006
...negative bacteria, including multi-drug resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE ... - Medical News Today (press release),
Preventing Avian Flu Pandemic: Nebraska Biocontainment Unit Stands ... May 8, 2006
...include: SARS, anthrax, smallpox, tularemia, plague, botulism, Ebola virus and other viral hemorrhagic fevers, monkeypox, vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus ... - Yahoo! News (press release)
Novel antibiotic from Wyeth gets green light in Europe May 3, 2006
...means it is effective against some of the most notorious 'superbugs', including methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci ... - Pharma Times (subscription),
Pfizer Japan Obtains Approval for ZYVOX, Detrusitol, J Zoloft in ... Apr 24, 2006
...linezolid), which has been marketed in Japan since 2001, is currently used in the treatment of infections associated with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE ... - Japan Corporate News (press release),
Epidemiology of Septic Shock in an Urban Emergency Department Apr 28, 2006
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was present in 13/74 (18%), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) was present in 3/74 (4%), and quinolone ... - AEM (subscription)
FDA Approval Received On Covalon's New Collagran'TM' And Collagran ... Apr 26, 2006
...silver provided in Collagran Ag TM is known by in vitro testing to kill Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus ... - CCNMatthews (press release),
