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How can everyone help preserve antibiotics? New video from Extending the Cure explains
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.
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Posted by Alison Buki
Tags: Agriculture, animal use, antibiotic use, antibiotics, community, cost, costs, data visualization, disease, drug development, drug resistance, ecology, Gram negative, gram negs, HAIs, health, health economics, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, prescribing, resistance, resistance ecology, resistance policy, trends
World Malaria Day 2013: Malaria in Review
25 Apr 2013
This post was written in collaboration with CDDEP researcher Suraj Pant.
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Posted by Alison Buki
Tags: ACTs, AMFm, community, cost, counterfeit drugs, developing, disease, disease ecology, disease mapping, drug development, drug resistance, ecology, elimination, health, health economics, malaria ecology, malaria mapping, malaria vaccine, MFTs, mobile health, multiple first-line therapies, new drugs, policy, resistance, resistance ecology, resistance policy, transmission, trends
Weekly digest: Eliminating malaria, antibiotic pollution, and fighting TB in the US and India
22 Feb 2013
A  roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: ACTs, antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, costs, disease, disease ecology, disease mapping, drug resistance, ecology, elimination, health, health economics, India, malaria ecology, malaria mapping, malaria vaccine, new drugs, policy, resistance, TB, transmission, trends
Weekly digest: New CDDEP project, MRSA in milk, and improving malaria treatments
28 Dec 2012
A  roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: ACTs, antibiotic use, antibiotics, community, cost, counterfeit drugs, disease, drug resistance, ecology, food safety, HAIs, health, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, resistance
Weekly digest: Broad global health survey published, spread of C diff mapped, and CDDEP blogs
14 Dec 2012
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, DCPP, disease, disease ecology, disease mapping, drug development, drug resistance, ecology, Gram negative, HAIs, health, India, malaria ecology, malaria mapping, new drugs, prescribing, resistance, trends