All posts tagged with superbugs

(Natural News) The hospital environment is drastically different from the typical school or office setting, partly because of the sheer number of people that go through and interact in it each day. But the bigger reason is that there are many different sources of bacteria and viruses present inside hospitals, and germicide use is standard […]

(Natural News) Antibiotics can be life-saving medications, and their development is considered one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. However, more is not necessarily better when it comes to antibiotics, and the rise of superbugs is testament to this fact. Now there’s another good reason to avoid overusing them: It can reduce the efficacy […]

(Natural News) Various health trends come and go depending on how effective they are, but here’s one for the books: experts are warning people against DIY fecal transplants, which can reportedly address autoimmune and bowel diseases. This dangerous trend can increase an individual’s risk of hepatitis and HIV along with various conditions like multiple sclerosis, obesity, Parkinson’s, and even sleep […]

(Natural News) Yaws isn’t a superbug yet, but newly-available research indicates it has joined the club of antibiotic-resistant diseases. This development will require the World Health Organization to revise its ongoing eradication strategy, warned a Science Daily article. Endemic to tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and South America, yaws is a bacterial infection that affects […]

(Natural News) British consumers got quite the shock when they discovered that antibiotic levels in the meat products they’re planning to buy from the U.S. have gone through the barn roof. American farm animals are dosed with several times the antibiotics given to locally-raised livestock, reported The Guardian. According to newly-acquired research data from the Alliance […]

(Natural News) Chicks that arrive on a farm in Rangareddy district in India, near the southern metropolis of Hyderabad, are fed a yellow liquid from plastic containers. “Now the supervisor will come, and we will have to start with whatever medicines he would ask us to give the chicks,” the caretaker said. These medicines are antibiotics, […]

(Natural News) Don’t always listen to your doctor’s orders. Even though they’ve been advised “to stop giving antibiotics to patients with sore throats,” the drugs are still being prescribed to patients instead of paracetamol, which is more effective. According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the National Health Service’s (NHS) watchdog, and Public Health […]

(Natural News) Through a special arrangement with The Food Grow Network and Food.news, we’ve made a lifesaving how-to video available to you for three days only, beginning today. It’s called “Treating Infections Without Antibiotics” and it shows you how to make your own potent antibiotics for emergency survival situations, or when pharmaceutical antibiotics become useless […]

(Natural News) Big Pharma’s many wrongdoings are well-documented, but most of us focus on the damage they’ve caused to human health. Unfortunately, a new report shows that the environment is also suffering because of their practices – and it’s setting a chain of events in motion that could undo all of the medical progress made […]

(Natural News) You have likely walked past it dozens of times during walks in wooded areas, without ever realizing that you were passing one of nature’s most miraculous healers. Usnea (pronounced yew-snee-a), or Old Man’s Beard, as it is known to many, is a type of lichen that can be found on trees that grow […]