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Weekly digest: Vietnam fights resistance, improper hand washing, and new TB drug
14 Jun 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: antibiotic use, antibiotics, developing, disease, drug development, drug resistance, HAIs, health, health economics, malaria ecology, new antibiotics, new drugs, prescribing, resistance, TB, transmission, trends
Weekly digest: New drug approval paths, a closer look at the NIH outbreak, and stories of TB
7 Jun 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.An article in Livemint on drug resistance quotes CDDEP Director Ramanan Laxminarayan as saying, “The MDR-TB problem in India cannot be ignored unless we are prepared for an even bigger problem down the road." [Livemint]
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: AMFm, antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, costs, developing, disease, drug development, drug resistance, elimination, Gram negative, HAIs, health, health economics, India, new antibiotics, new drugs, prescribing, resistance, resistance policy, TB
Weekly digest: Fighting TB in India, how to defeat MRSA in hospitals, and antibiotic circuits
31 May 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, costs, developing, disease, drug development, drug resistance, Gram negative, HAIs, health, health economics, India, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, prescribing, resistance, TB, trends
Weekly digest: Michael Pollan on resistance, the decline of malaria, and antimicrobial clay
24 May 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: antibiotic use, antibiotics, disease, drug development, drug resistance, Gram negative, HAIs, health, health economics, malaria ecology, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, prescribing, resistance, TB, trends
“Antibiotics Make You Fat”: A Chance for Readers to Weigh In
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.
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Posted by Hellen Gelband
Tags: antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, costs, disease, drug resistance, HAIs, health, health economics, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, prescribing, resistance, resistance policy, trends