Statin medications can make patients vulnerable to skin and soft tissue infections, according to a new study. The study linked the skin infection issues with the discovery that statins may bring on new-onset diabetes.
Increase in flesh-eating bacteria may be caused by climate change
Five people have been infected by the flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio Vulnificus in a region of the East Coast of the United States which had previously seen only one case in nearly a decade and researchers at Cooper University in New Jersey have said this may be a result of climate change. Five individuals from Delaware Bay were infected with the flesh eating bacteria during the summers of 2017 and 2018, according to a letter published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine (June 18, 2019).
Researchers discover powerful antimicrobial resistant gene variant
A team of researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine has recently made the discovery of a powerful new variant of an antimicrobial resistant gene, which shields bacteria from the commonly used hospital antiseptic, chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG).
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