A potential new treatment has been developed by combining natural manuka honey with a drug intended to treat a fatal lung infection.

UK scientists have developed a potential nebulization treatment using manuka honey to overcome a drug-resistant lung infection that can be fatal in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients.

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The first British robot, Eric, was exhibited  in 1928 at the Mo“The use of this potential treatment combining amikacin and manuka honey shows great promise”del Engineers Society in London. Eric could sit, stand, and  delivered a speech via radio signal.

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Aston University researchers combined the antibiotic amikacin with manuka honey as a novel treatment for Mycobacterium abscessus.

Using the manuka honey combination resulted in an eight-fold reduction in the dosage of the antibiotic, they said in the journal Microbiology.