�Australian hospitals should invalidate prescribing expensive broad-spectrum antibiotics for pneumonia to avoid the development of more drug-resistant super bugs, according to a University of Melbourne study.
The study, by PhD research worker and Austin Health Infectious Diseases adviser, Dr Patrick Charles, shows that alone 5 per cent of people admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia had infections caused by organisms that could not be successfully treated with penicillin combined with an "atypical" antibiotic such as doxycycline or erythromycin.
In the world's largest survey of its kind, Dr Charles studied almost 900 people admitted to sextet Australian hospitals over 28 months from 2004 to 2006.
Dr Charles' research analysed samples of blood, pee, sputum and viral swabs of the nose and throat taken from 885 patients at the Austin, Alfred, Monash and West Gippsland hospitals in Victoria, the Royal Perth Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane.
He base that most cases of pneumonia were caused by easy to treat bacterium such as the diplococcus pneumoniae or Mycoplasma, or or else by respiratory viruses that do not require antibiotic drug therapy.
Only five per centime of cases were caused by organisms that would require more expensive and broad-spectrum antibiotics, and these cases were nearly all in patients who'd had frequent hospital admissions or were residents of nursing homes.
"The cogitation results show that electric current Australian guidelines for prescribing antibiotics for pneumonia ar appropriate,'' Dr Charles said.
"It shows that Australian doctors should resist the push which is occurring in some parts of the worldly concern - in particular the US - to prescribe broad spectrum antibiotics to handle essentially all possible causes."
Dr Charles aforementioned the trend towards broad-spectrum antibiotics was being goaded by laboratory-based studies of resistance rates in bacterium sent to the labs, rather than clinical studies of patients with pneumonia.
In the laboratory-based studies, the bacterial isolates often come from highly selected patients with more difficult to treat disease.
In addition, the fear of litigation made some doctors unnecessarily opt for more aggressive treatments.
However, the more than frequently these broad-spectrum antibiotics were victimized, the more likely it was that bacteria would be become resistant to them.
"The outgrowth of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens is one of the biggest threats to Australian health fear standards and is closely linked to the inappropriate use of antibiotics,'' Dr Charles said.
"By continuing to use more traditional antibiotics to treat most cases of pneumonia, Australian doctors canful limit or delay the emergence of more repellent strains of bacteria.
"By using the broad-spectrum antibiotics less often, we can as well prolong the effective lifetime of these drugs.
"Furthermore, in the US, Canada and some parts of Europe, they ar seeing some serious complications which seem to be related to the overutilization of some classes of broad-spectrum antibiotics that are frequently put-upon there to treat respiratory infections."
Dr Charles is a physician in Infectious Disease and General Medicine at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He is likewise an Honorary Lecturer in the University of Melbourne's Department of Medicine at the Hospital.
His study was recently published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases and he was conferred with a PhD for his research 27 August at the University of Melbourne.
He received funding from the independent 201CC Research Fund to complete the study.
Source: Janine Sim-Jones
University of Melbourne
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Friday 15 August 2008
Download Inkubus Sukkubus
 Artist: Inkubus Sukkubus: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock: Gothic Discography:  Witch Queen Year: 2005 Tracks: 9  The Beast With Two Backs Year: 2004 Tracks: 13  Supernature Year: 2001 Tracks: 12  Wild Year: 1999 Tracks: 15  Away With The Fearies Year: 1998 Tracks: 15  Vampyre Erotica Year: 1997 Tracks: 13  Beltaine (The Early Recordings 90-91) Year: 1996 Tracks: 15  Wytches Year: 1994 Tracks: 15  Belladonna and Aconite Year: 1993 Tracks: 14 Uncovering novel rhythms and moving orchestrations developing within gothic rock'n'roll flair inspirations and magic lyric references, Inkubus Sukkubus likewise display a battalion of influences ranging from the sounds of the Sisters of Mercy to the creations of the Rolling Stones. Concentrating their musical efforts on the flair of pagan ideals and orphic references, Sukkubus was conventional in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in the U.K. in 1989. The batting order consists of vocalist Candia Ridley, Tony McKormack (guitar, programing), Adam Henderson (bass), and Mick Egan. Playing across the local club scene during the months that followed, Sukkubus finally clear-cut to track record their take off record album in 1992. Belladonna and Aconite, the group's debut full-length arrived in record stores that same yr. In 1994, the band released their second uncut, Wytches, sooner entry an all-inclusive duty tour which included headlining shows for bands like Nosferatu, Clawfinger, or the Mission. Heartbeat of the Earth showed up in 1996 as their one-third album, before still some other varied circumference that took them all over Europe. Vampyre Erotica, Sukkubus' fourth album, was issued in 1997, one yr earlier Away With the Faeries. In 2001, the British band released Supernatural, their sixth studio endeavour. |
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Lisa Marie Presley is Having Twins!
Lisa Marie Presley confirmed today to Entertainment Tonight that she and husband Mark Lockwood are expecting double bundles of delight in the fall.
Lisa Marie's mom Priscilla Presley gushed to ET's Mark Steines last workweek, saying she was excited to be a nan again.
�I even told her, if you don�t want twins, I will take i and make life easier for you!�
Twins run in the family�Priscilla has counterpart brothers and Elvis was a counterpart as well.
Make sure to check your local listings and strain in to ET on Wednesday, Aug. 6 to get the latest news show on Lisa Marie�s twins.
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Friday 27 June 2008
Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys
Artist: Peter Rauhofer and Pet Shop Boys
Genre(s):
House
Discography:
The Collaboration
Year: 2001
Tracks: 20
Counting Cards in Vegas
Sunday 22 June 2008
Maarten Steinkamp confirms Sony BMG exit
Will step down as president of Continental Europe
LONDON -- Maarten Steinkamp, president of Continental Europe for Sony BMG, is leaving the company.
Although representatives for Sony BMG would not response to calls from Billboard, insiders confirmed speculation that has been circulating the pan-European industry in the past few days. Steinkamp subsequently confirmed his departure exclusively to Billboard.biz.
He says: "I am indeed stepping down as president of Continental Europe." Steinkamp declined to discuss his plans or the reasons behind the move.
A Sony BMG spokesman declined comment on Steinkamp's departure, or on rumblings that head of global marketing Richard Sanders was likely to rise in his absence.
A former journalist, Steinkamp had served with BMG for two decades, having joined BMG/Bertels in 1988. He has since worked in a multitude of international roles, including executive vp of BMG's ASEAN region, and heading up BMG International in New York before the record music company's joint-venture with Sony in 2004.
News of his departure comes on the heels of persisting reports that Bertelsmann's hierarchy are looking to sell-up its share in the Sony BMG JV. The joint venture agreement binding Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann is set to expire in August 2009.
The German media group's CEO Ostrowski recently upped the ante, when he said in March: "We might take over 100%, or sell our 50% to Sony so that they have 100% or we might continue the joint venture. All three outcomes are possible."
LONDON -- Maarten Steinkamp, president of Continental Europe for Sony BMG, is leaving the company.
Although representatives for Sony BMG would not response to calls from Billboard, insiders confirmed speculation that has been circulating the pan-European industry in the past few days. Steinkamp subsequently confirmed his departure exclusively to Billboard.biz.
He says: "I am indeed stepping down as president of Continental Europe." Steinkamp declined to discuss his plans or the reasons behind the move.
A Sony BMG spokesman declined comment on Steinkamp's departure, or on rumblings that head of global marketing Richard Sanders was likely to rise in his absence.
A former journalist, Steinkamp had served with BMG for two decades, having joined BMG/Bertels in 1988. He has since worked in a multitude of international roles, including executive vp of BMG's ASEAN region, and heading up BMG International in New York before the record music company's joint-venture with Sony in 2004.
News of his departure comes on the heels of persisting reports that Bertelsmann's hierarchy are looking to sell-up its share in the Sony BMG JV. The joint venture agreement binding Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann is set to expire in August 2009.
The German media group's CEO Ostrowski recently upped the ante, when he said in March: "We might take over 100%, or sell our 50% to Sony so that they have 100% or we might continue the joint venture. All three outcomes are possible."
Sunday 15 June 2008
Don't have reservations about ticket price for "Three Hotels"
This week's local premiere of Jon Robin Baitz's play "Three Hotels" will be the first full production by the troupe Our American Theatre Company. And don't sweat the ticket cost: For all nine performances, you can pay whatever you want or are able to pay.
But the company's actors and other personnel are no fresh-out-of-school novices. They are professional Seattle theater veterans, eager to plumb the past century's deep pool of American playwriting.
Founded several years ago by local actor-director Susanna Burney, the company started off by producing public readings of plays by such major American dramatists as William Inge, Lillian Hellman and Sam Shepard.
"It started with my passion for American writing," says Burney. "I've always loved Eugene O'Neill, and I've always been fascinated by that whole American canon of classic plays. What I'm really curious about is how these plays, which rarely get done anymore, connect to us today."
With her cohorts, Burney has raised $10,000 to present this run of "Three Hotels," a triptych of monologues set in hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Mexico. Performed by Todd Licea and Lisa Carswell, the work ponders the cross-currents of professional and personal accountability in the lives of an executive of a multinational baby-formula company and his wife.
Burney, the director of the 80-minute piece, really wants to underscore that if you have only a couple of bucks to toss in the show's collection jar, no sweat.
"I feel you should be able to go to plays and pay what you can afford," she says. "This is about lifting barriers. I'd rather have an audience of 40 people who paid $5 each to get in, than six who paid $30."
Misha Berson: mberson@seattletimes.com
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Wednesday 4 June 2008
Mika: 'My Second Album is Done'
Mika has finished his second album.
The singer, whose debut album Life In Cartoon Motion was released in February 2007, now plans to spend the rest of 2008 making the difficult second album sound just right.
He says, "The album is done. It�s probably not going to be out this year, but maybe � it�s a fun record."
The Lebanese-born singer, 24, was last week named Songwriter Of The Year at the prestigious Ivor Novello awards.
Mika's debut single, Grace Kelly, reached number one in the UK singles charts when it was released in January 2007. He was later awarded the BRIT Award for Best British Breakthrough Artist.
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