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Should Antibiotic Use in Livestock Continue? When we get sick we make a trip to the doctor and get prescribed medicine. One common form of medicine prescribed is antibiotics. In addition, this form of medicine is used in the raising of livestock, but at a much larger quantity at 70% of all antibiotic use (The Overuse). So, what if I told you that too much of that drug can lead to harmful effects in our world? The issue of whether antibiotics should be used in the raising of livestock or not has…

Knowledge of the most common anatomic characteristics and their possible variations is fundamental, because the nontreatment of one canal can lead to endodontic treatment failure.1 The main objective of endodontic therapy is to eliminate infection from the root canal and the prevention of reinfection.2 The achievement of this goal depends on several factors:3 -elimination of surviving microorganisms in the root canal system through effective cleaning and shaping procedures -creation of a tight…

Mercer disease is a staph infection that is resistant to the penicillin family of antibiotics. Mercer is another name for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus; or MRSA for short. The infection begins either in the skin or a mucus membrane. The longer it goes untreated the deeper the infection burrows. MRSA can even get into the blood and spread the infection to the entire body. MRSA is a man influenced bacteria. It gained the resistance to the penicillin family because of improper use of…

Bacteria are single celled organisms. These organisms cannot be seen with naked eyes. There are million varieties of bacteria out of which few bacteria are useful for our body metabolisms in day to day life. Usually bacteria reproduce very fast in favorable atmosphere. However, some bacteria adversely affect our health. They affect our health either internally or externally. These days with the rapid growth and advancement in technology, we have treatments for almost every bacterial disease we…

Many of you would’ve heard the word Antibiotic at least once in your life, a few of you may have even taken some. It’s a very well known medical term and literally means ‘life-killing’. Something I’m certain will astound you, is that growing resistance against these once revolutionary treatments is one of the biggest threats to global health today. For those who don’t know, Antibiotics are a branch of drugs that stop bacteria from reproducing. This is achieved by stopping vital processes…

2 Ways How Brooklyn Hipsters Could Be Helpful for Science How many of you reading this article want to end hipsters once and for all? Let's face it, Brooklyn hipsters, in specific, are annoying, can't stop trending, and should not be tolerated with anymore. The only problem is they may actually be beneficial to science. Recent news has surfaced that there is certain bacteria in beards that can actually work as an antibiotic. As people know, many Brooklyn hipsters can be seen with beards, and…

Many people want to avoid using chemical products in their skin care routine and are on the lookout for an all-natural product to cure their acne prone skin. A product, that's been shown to be beneficial and effective in the treatment and reduction of acne, is organic argan oil. Acne treatments often fail to work because they are used incorrectly. Using too much of the chemicals on the skin will dry it out too much, which causes your body to produce even more oil to combat the effect of the…

Comparing with the normal treatment like pain-killers, herbal medicine surprisingly has a more significant effect on patients with CPPS. In accordance with its features, CPPS, which is known as chronic pelvic pain syndrome, is a disease that is given when patients complain of severe pain or discomfort in the pelvic area with no infection can be found in prostate fluid and semen. Of course, there is also no pathological change on the prostate gland. In the view of modern western medicine, CPPS…

The Cost of Nosocomial Infections in Health Care Research has shown that there were 462 deaths in 2013 related to airplane crashes; there are 205 deaths a day in US hospitals related to nosocomial infections. This could amount to almost 75,000 deaths in a year. In this day and age of advanced technology and medical knowledge, this is a frightening statistic. Part of the problem can be contributed to the continued overuse of antibiotics; some infections, such as Methicillin-resistant…

patient to a variety of infections.8 Despite the advancement in medical care for patients with advanced liver disease in the past decades, bacterial infections remain very common and account for significant morbidity and mortality in those patients.9 Clostridium difficile is an increasingly prevalent hospital-acquired infection that affects patients with cirrhosis. A study of over 80,000 patients with cirrhosis found patients with C. difficile-associated disease to have higher mortality and…