News & Blog - drug resistance

17 May 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.Stressing the need to preserve the efficacy of antibiotics, CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan writes in CDC’s Safe Healthcare that “we are all responsible for whether future generations will have effective antibiotics.” [CDC]
16 May 2013
That got your attention.  It isn’t true—or, at least we don’t know if it’s true.  Antibiotics probably don’t make you fat.
30 Apr 2013
Today CDDEP is excited to release a new video on antibiotic resistance: Unstoppable Superbugs: Closer Than We Think? Currently, healthcare-associated infections, about 70 percent of which are resistant to at least one drug, contribute to 99,000 deaths each year in the U.S., and the problem is getting worse. So what can the concerned public do to help? As it turns out, there’s a lot we can do.