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...that by the end of 2004 it would stop using meat from animals that had been excessively treated with antibiotics. The decision may help curtail the practice of dosing healthy animals with antibiotics to plump them up for slaughter. Doctors hope this will reduce the opportunity for disease-causing bacteria, present in meat, to become resistant to drugs...
Move over, Botox. Hyaluronan is the new rejuvenator. Found in the umbilical cord, some bacteria and the red combs of roosters, hyaluronan reduces inflammation in arthritic knees and prevents scar tissue after surgery. It's also what makes up the gel Restylane, a Medicis product recently approved by the FDA to plump wrinkles around the nose and mouth. (Botox is used to erase crow's-feet, furrowed brows and other frown lines.) Europeans and Canadians have been using Restylane for years. Another wrinkle buster, Hylaform, manufactured by Genzyme, is awaiting FDA approval...
...estimated 75 percent of inhalation anthrax cases prove fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This high mortality rate may result from the deceptive initial symptoms of inhalation anthrax infection, which resemble those of influenza. By the time a correct diagnosis is rendered, the anthrax bacteria may have already released enough toxin to kill a host—rendering antibiotics useless...
...research comes on the heels of a Dec. 2 announcement by Avanir Pharmaceuticals that it is developing an antibiotic that, taken just once before anthrax infection, would both kill anthrax bacteria and prevent anthrax toxin from entering cells...
Avanir’s antibiotic would be more powerful and possibly more effective than the current anthrax vaccines that require booster shots every year to remain potent and that combat only anthrax bacteria. But unlike the Avanir antibiotic, Cantley said he hoped that a drug designed to inhibit anthrax lethal factor would be effectively administrable after contraction of anthrax, thereby lessening the need to inoculate large populations and saving lives in cases of late diagnosis...