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Phage Therapy - Clinical trials successful outcome in UK.

Produced by Grace Filby BA(Hons) Cert Ed FRSA,
http://www.amazingphage.info
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Technology to defeat bacterial infections and superbugs shows positive results - announced at a one-day conference in the UK on 22nd February 2008.

Delegates were informed of the results of the first Phase II clinical trials that have taken place in London with patients who had long-term antibiotic-resistant ear infections caused by the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa (previously untreatable).

This visit and short video are a follow-up to the Winston Churchill Fellow's Report 2007 by Grace Filby: "The health value of bacteriophages" online at http://www.wcmt.org.uk/public/reports/168_1.pdf .

In April 2009 there was an article about this in New Scientist: VIRUSES COULD KILL SUPERBUGS THAT ANTIBIOTICS CAN'T http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227054.500-viruses-could-kill-superbu...

Commenting on the successful outcome, the clinical director of the trials, Professor Tony Wright, Consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London, said: "All the patients had long histories of ear problems that had failed to respond to all sorts of treatments including topical and oral antibiotics, and sometimes even surgery. Some had had problems for more than 40 years."

In recent years since the antibiotic crisis began, politicians, scientists, physicians, government officials and the press have stated that more research into phage therapy is needed, and some have remembered to point out that it is needed urgently.

This news at the Bacteriophage conference is a step forward in medicine and the teaching of science and technology.

This video encourages the 'powers that be' and non-scientists to take a fresh look at the subject.

Photography: Professor Bill V.Way DO, FAOCD, Dermatology Residency Program Director, AOCD President 2006-2007

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  • Phew Nixart, that IS perceptive.

    I could answer with several points e.g. by recalling a moment at the international conference in Edinburgh in July 08 and some correspondence that is definitely not cricket, nor international diplomacy.

  • That is dreadful but I agree - the NHS CARES NOT. There are dozens of letters and email replies from the NHS over several years that provide ample evidence of fob offs, ignorance and disinterest.

    In fact that pseudomonas phage research even took place in an NHS hospital right in the middle of London but I got told off good and proper for even mentioning it.

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  • Thank you for replying. According to the NHS I was bound to pick THIS bug up because I had mild asthma which is nonsense. I have a chance of being referred onto The Royal Brompton so thought I'd ask. The NHS is beyond belief and leaves me speechless AND breathless (lol) I used to be an athlete with supra-normal Olympian lungs 160% of the norm. Oh well at least it's ALL free (one has to find humour). Tommy

  • No the pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical trial on chronic ear infections was at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital.

  • pink - was THAT hospital the Royal Brompton?

  • Why is the New Scientist treating this as a new treatment? David Harper mentions in the linked article "is now working with the US army to see if similar phages could treat wound infections".

    Erm, excuse me! why doesn`t Harper work with Eastern Euorpean armies who have been using it for decades?

    Or would what he would learn about phage, in the East be admitting to Western ignorance of this therapy?

  • God I wish that I could be treated by THIS guy. I've had pseudomonas in my lungs since I received infected IVs and I've been on nebulised Colomycin for years and the infcetion just gets worse. NOBODY reviews it or offers anything different. I KNOW that it will kill me but the NHS in the UK CARES NOT

  • We need this in the West...think of all the pathologies it could help.

  • Bacteriophage therapy has been used in India for centuries!

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