Tagged: antibiotics

Sosa's camp just sent over E's latest. It's that fever pitch love drug music. Listen, but try not to overdose on the metaphors.

Unless you happen to be in a committed relationship and neither partner strays from the other, every time you have sex, the chance of waking up the next morning and taking a piss of razorblades is at least 50%. And if you're one of those people who practice the all natural method - raw doggin' - then that ups the ante to somewhere above 60%. Now, as if AIDS, herpes and more weren't enough, there's a budding super strand of gonorrhea resistant to antibiotics. While the new form of the disease has yet to reach the [...]

It's been a while since German dance punk band Digitalism dropped a full-blown album. Well, the wait is finally over. Jens and Isi are finally back with a cool collection of ten mind-blowing tracks on their newest album, I Love You, Dude . It seems like all the great EDM stars are partaking in the "bromance trend" as of lately, and judging by the album, it looks like the bro love is working. The album contains two previously posted tracks, Two Hearts and Blitz , along [...]

Something to track : The highly serious journal Lancet Infectious Diseases yesterday posed the question itself over a paper revealing the rapid spread of multi-drug-resistant bacteria. "Is this the end of antibiotics?" it asked.Doctors and scientists have not been complacent, but the paper by Professor Tim Walsh and colleagues takes the anxiety to a new level. Last September, Walsh published details of a gene he had discovered, called NDM 1, which passes easily between types of bacteria called enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli and [...]

Warning: If you're squeamish about bodily functions then this post is not for you. Well I finally folded & started an antibiotic on my 8th day of sore throat. I waited because I never spiked a fever (<100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) & know that 60% of sore throats (pharyngitis) have a viral cause. However, ongoing tender cervical lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes), exudate (white pockets of pus)on my tonsillar buds, and a lack of any cough or nasal congestive symptoms left room for a bacterial pharyngitis diagnosis. So when I developed airway narrowing & chest pain [...]