30 Mar 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
22 Mar 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
21 Mar 2012
Please note that we revised this graphic on 4/6/2012. The original graphic mistakenly included faropenem, a penem antibiotic, in the calculation of carbapenem sales. The corrected graphic is below. Read more here.
16 Mar 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.April’s edition
of Infection Control and Hospital
Epidemiology is entirely devoted to antimicrobial stewardship. The collection of research shows challenges, priorities, and successes in stewardship efforts, including one study demonstrating how a 7-year
antimicrobial stewardship program at the University of Maryland Medical Center
proved to be extremely cost-effective.
15 Mar 2012
Our friends at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) are conducting a worldwide survey on antimicrobial stewardship. If you work in a hospital setting, please consider filling it out and forwarding it to colleagues. The closing date is this Sunday 19 March 2011. Here is the blurb from ESCMID: