Microbiome News

• DDW 2021 Probiotics Might Help Guard Against Upper Respiratory Symptoms Daily probiotic use might help protect against upper-respiratory-tract infection symptoms in vulnerable populations including older adults and those who are overweight, new research suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2021
• Fecal Transplantation Safe but Ineffective in PsA Trial A trial found fecal microbiota transplantation in psoriatic arthritis inferior to sham but safe, and investigators said it's worthy of future study.
  Medscape Medical News, May 07, 2021
• Fecal Microbiota Transplant Impacts MicroRNAs Implicated in C. Diff Successful fecal microbiota transplantation reverses the suppression of microRNAs (miRNAs) implicated in recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, April 27, 2021
• AACR 2021 Antibiotics May Prolong PFS in HCC Patients on Immunotherapy Taking antibiotics 30 days before or after starting an immune checkpoint inhibitor was associated with a benefit in progression-free survival (PFS) for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  Medscape Medical News, April 21, 2021
• AACR 2021 Leveraging the Microbiome to Enhance Cancer Treatment Andrea Facciabene, PhD, and colleagues conducted a preclinical study in which vancomycin enhanced the efficacy of radiotherapy against melanoma and lung cancer.
  Medscape Medical News, April 19, 2021
• Diet High in Animal, Processed Foods Tied to Inflamed Gut Microbiome A higher intake of animal and processed foods, alcohol and sugar is associated with higher levels of intestinal inflammatory markers, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2021
• Paper on Anal Swabs for COVID-19 Retracted for Ethical Issues The article, 'Anal swab as the potentially optimal specimen for SARS-CoV-2 detection to evaluate the hospital discharge of COVID-19 patients,' appeared in July in Future Microbiology.
  Retraction Watch, April 16, 2021
• Oral Microbiome Linked to COVID-19 Diagnosis Oral microbial markers may be a potential diagnostic tool for COVID-19, researchers suggest.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Intrapartum Group B Strep Prophylaxis Not Tied to Kids' Allergies Maternal intrapartum group B Streptococcus antibiotic prophylaxis isn't associated with an increased risk for diagnosis of allergic disorders such as asthma and hay fever in young children, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 14, 2021
• Microbiota-Directed Therapy May Aid Growth in Malnourished Kids Dietary intervention that involves the target manipulation of microbiota components may improve the growth rate in kids with moderate acute malnutrition, which affects more than 30 million worldwide.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2021
• The Final Insult: Some Dying of COVID While Awaiting Vaccine Air Force veteran Diane Drewes was down to her last few breaths at a hospice center in Ohio when the phone rang. It was a health care worker, calling to schedule her first appointment for a coronavirus shot.
  Associated Press, April 05, 2021
• Microbial Infection Tied to Impaired Healing in Crohn's Disease in Mice New mouse research suggests that infection with a type of yeast found in cheese and processed meat may impair intestinal-wound healing in patients with Crohn's disease, providing a potential target for prevention and treatment.
  Reuters Health Information, March 16, 2021
• Evidence Grows for Food as RA Treatment Recent annual meetings of the ACR have featured randomized, controlled trials that bring welcome rigor to the field and provide findings of interest to clinicians and their patients, Orrin M. Troum, MD, said.
  Medscape Medical News, March 16, 2021
• CROI 2021 Vaginal pH May Predict CIN 2 Progression in HIV-Positive Women The researchers evaluated the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) type, local immune response, and markers of the cervicovaginal microbiome on the risk of CIN 2 persistence/progression.
  Medscape Medical News, March 15, 2021
• Bacteriotherapy Passes Early Test in Atopic Dermatitis Study "And perhaps most exciting," Gallo added, is the finding that the subset of patients with AD who were most responsive to the ShA9 compound...showed improvement in...scores used to assess inflammation.
  Medscape Medical News, March 11, 2021
• Houston Has a Problem: All the COVID Variants of Concern Houston is the first city in the United States to report all the major variants, a finding that comes the same day governor lifts state's mask mandate.
  Medscape Medical News, March 03, 2021
• Vagisil Offered Teens a Vaginal 'Glow Up.' Docs Cry Foul Some physicians have called the marketing campaign 'predatory' because it targets teens who are already self-conscious about their bodies.
  Medscape Medical News, March 01, 2021
• Growing Immunity Driving Drop in COVID Cases? Not So Fast, Experts Say Although targeted vaccinations, as well as prior infections, might be curbing spread in some communities, experts agree it is not enough to explain the national decline in cases.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Can Gut Parasites Slow the Aging Process? A decline in these microbes in developed nations has been linked to inflammatory illnesses such as asthma, atopic eczema, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and T1D.
  WebMD Health News, February 09, 2021
• Proton Pump Inhibitor Use Tied to Childhood Asthma Children who use proton pump inhibitors may be at increased risk of developing asthma, a Swedish study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, February 08, 2021