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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
Weekly Digest: WHO approves semi-synthetic artemisinin, antibiotic preservation - a joint responsibility, and funding for AMFm
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]
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: AMFm, antibiotic use, antibiotics, developing, disease, drug development, drug resistance, flu, health economics, India, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, prescribing, resistance, TB
“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
Weekly digest: Resistance in wildlife, malaria-proof mosquitoes, and the cost of infectious disease
10 May 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Suraj Pant
Tags: ACTs, AMFm, animal use, antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, data visualization, developing, disease, disease mapping, drug development, drug resistance, food safety, HAIs, health, health economics, India, malaria ecology, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, prescribing, resistance, resistance policy, transmission, trends
Weekly digest: New CDDEP video on superbugs, resistant bacteria in turkey, and disease detecting rats
3 May 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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Posted by Alison Buki
Tags: ACTs, AMFm, animal use, antibiotic use, antibiotics, cost, disease, drug development, drug resistance, Gram negative, gram negs, HAIs, health, MRSA, new antibiotics, new drugs, policy, prescribing, resistance, TB