Care for all people

Throughout its history, mankind has been fighting infectious diseases, and the discovery of antibiotics in the middle of the 20th century was a real breakthrough that radically affected the average life expectancy of people and the development of society. Before the massive use of antibiotics in medicine, infectious diseases were one of the main causes of death, and for the same reason, infant mortality was very high. Before other diseases, which are the main causes of death now (cardiovascular problems…

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The problem of the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria is one of the most pressing problems of modern medicine, so the development of new antibiotics is now a very important task. Recently, in the journal Cell, American researchers reported that they were able to find a new potential broad-spectrum antibiotic in the Drug Repurposing Hub’s compound database using machine learning. The discovered substance was named galicin. The authors of the work experimentally showed that galicin has bactericidal…

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Superbugs are called so for a reason, because they really have real superpowers. Only, unfortunately, they promise nothing good to people. Superbugs are pathogens of infectious diseases that are resistant to several antibiotics that are traditionally used to treat the disease in question. It is the multiple resistance of superbugs that distinguishes them from ordinary resistant strains – they are resistant to only one drug or to several, but from the same class. Superbugs are extremely dangerous, because in front…

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One of the most talked about news in recent years has been the spread of viral pneumonia from China. Let’s try to figure out what it is and how to protect ourselves. In early December 2019, there were reports of the first cases of severe pneumonia without a specified pathogen in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The cause was a virus that has so far been identified – 2019-nCov belongs to the Coronavirus family. It should be noted that this…

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The antibiotic is Fleming’s unique invention, thanks to which millions of lives are saved every second. Just think, a little more than a hundred years ago, the population was only 1.5 billion people, and today there are more than 7 billion of us. With the number, the life expectancy of the population has also doubled, if not tripled. And in all this, antibiotics are not the least meritorious. But every medal has 2 sides. The flip side of the coin…

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The second wave of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is raging, the number of infected in the world already exceeds the June peak of the first wave. As of the third decade of October, more than 43 million people fell ill in the world, more than a million 100 thousand died. In fact, there are more cases and deaths, especially in countries where concomitant diseases (chronic heart failure, diabetes mellitus, etc.) are indicated as the cause of death, and not coronavirus…

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