April 2015
Antibiotic Resistance
October 2013
Antibiotic Resistance
October 2013
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
August 2013
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
February 2013
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
January 2013
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2012
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
April 2012
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
What are the factors that make drug resistance a more difficult problem for poorer countries?Read more
January 2012
Health and Development
Does a ban on sex-selective abortions effectively work towards evening the child sex ratio in India?Read more
January 2012
Antibiotic Resistance
How can antibiotic dosing practices be optimized to both clear infections and minimize the development of antibiotic resistance?Read more
August 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
What is the optimum level of control of immunizing infections?Read more
July 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
Are the seasonal fluoroquinolone usage patterns related to the timing of the influenza seasons and what proportion of use is associated with influenza activity?Read more
July 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
January 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
January 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
September 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
How can financial incentives be leveraged to increase antibiotic effectiveness?Read more
June 2010
Disease Control Priorities, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This brief highlights the strong link between flu and antibiotic prescription. According to recent research, from 1995 through 2002, 26 percent of patientsjust over one-quarter of themwho were diagnosed with flu were prescribed antibiotics. And that excludes people whose diagnosis could plausibly...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Policy solutions to growing antimicrobial resistance aimed at changing behavior within the physician- patient dyad are largely ineffective, as neither party has a strong disincentive to prescribe or use these generally safe drugs, and present illness weighs far heavier than potential future...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Background: No simple, cost-effective methods exist to identify patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization outside intensive care settings. Without such methods, colonized patients are entering hospitals undetected and...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
It is common wisdom that open-access leads to the inefficient use of resources and private ownership of resources improves efficiency. However, the impact of enclosure and efficient management of some resource pools on other open-access resource pools is poorly recognized. The problem is common to...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Objectives: The worldwide rapid increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria has made efforts to prolong the lifespan of existing antibiotics very important. Antibiotic resistance often confers a fitness cost in the bacterium. Resistance may thus be reversible if antibiotic use is discontinued or...Read more
May 2010
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
A stochastic model is proposed to explain one possible underlying mechanism of the postantibiotic effect (PAE). This phenomenon, of continued inhibition of bacterial growth after removal of the antibiotic drug, is of high relevance in the context of optimizing dosing regimens. One clinical...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Objectives: The aim of this study was to use detailed weekly data on outpatient antibiotic sales for pre-school children in Sweden to test for the significance of trends during 1992-2002. We also report on the special features found in weekly antibiotic data, and how the interrupted time series (...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Modern medicine depends on the availability of affordable and effective antibiotics. However, widespread reliance on antibiotics has spurned an alarming rise in resistant strains of bacteria, complicating the treatment of infectious diseases. Many blame the situation on doctors, patients, and...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
The increasing resistance of harmful biological organisms (bacteria, parasites, and pests) to selection pressure from the widespread use of control agents such as antibiotics, antimalarials, and pesticides is a serious problem in both medicine and agriculture. Modeling resistance or, conversely,...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
The fight against agricultural pests that destroy crops and reduce yields is as old as agriculture itself. In the 21st-century variant of this fight, humans have called in biotechnology. Some commercial varieties of corn, soybean, and cotton, among other crops, have now been engineered to express a...Read more
May 2010
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
Uniform treatment guidelines are often used in medicine to ensure that all physicians prescribe a safe, efficacious, and cost-effective drug in treating a medical condition. The main message of this paper is that a policy of uniform treatment based on the standard cost-effectiveness criterion may...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
