antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Local lake virus saves man suffering from life-threatening, antibiotic resistant heart infection

April 7, 2018 -

Posted by Edsel Cook

(Natural News) An 80-year old Connecticut man owed his life to a virus taken from a nearby lake. Experimental bacteriophage therapy with the OMKO1 virus eliminated an antibiotic-resistant infection that was threatening the man’s heart, according to a LiveScience article. Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) in New Haven, Connecticut reported that the naturally-occurring virus succeeded in treating Pseudomonas […]

in: Cardiovascular disease, Disease Treatments, Diseases, Health

Animals will consume more antibiotics than humans in 2017, as superbug bacteria become increasing public threat

December 28, 2016 -

Posted by Amy Goodrich

(Natural News) As our last defenses begin to fail, many more people might die from common bacterial infections in 2017. Each year, an estimated 700,000 people die due to untreatable drug-resistant infections, and today that number is increasing faster than anyone predicted. About 40 years ago Levy and colleagues published their landmark study showing a […]

in: Animals, Antibiotics, Culture & Society, Current Events, Environment, Food, Green living / sustainable living, Health, Toxic chemicals, Toxic Foods, Toxic ingredients

Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics

December 20, 2016 -

Posted by Amy Goodrich

(Natural News) Not all honey is created equal. While the benefits of raw, unprocessed honey have been well-documented over the centuries, Australian researchers have found one type of honey, called Manuka honey, to be better than all known antibiotics. Manuka honey is produced by bees that forage on the nectar of Leptospermum Scoparium, or New […]

in: Antibiotics, Food, functional food, Health, herbal medicine, Integrative medicine, Medicine, Nutrition, Remedies, Super Foods, Superfoods & healing foods