One year after promising to tackle Anti-Biotic Resistance, the UN assesses its progress John Light September 21, 2017 Tackling future threats is never easy. Last year, the UN launched a new initiative aimed at tackling a growing problem that could someday lead to catastrophe. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) essentially means antibiotics are becoming less effective, laying ...
Biofilms and flesh-eating bacteria: Meet the World’s 12 Scariest Superbugs Alanna Shaikh, MPH March 2, 2017 We know now exactly which drug-resistant "superbugs" are most likely to kill us. This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a “global priority list,” of bacteria intended to guide research and discovery of new drugs and treatments. It is a rogu...
A rare thing happened at the UN this week: Leaders agreed to fix a problem BEFORE it becomes a full blown crisis Mark Leon Goldberg September 22, 2016 More than 700,000 people die each year from drug resistant bacteria. And if present trends continue, that number will skyrocket to 10 million people by 2050. This is roughly the equivalent of the current global burden of cancer deaths. But wait--it get's wo...
Did farming practices in China create an antibiotic resistant bacteria that’s spreading around the world? Alanna Shaikh, MPH August 8, 2016 One of the least reported global health stories of the last decade is the rises of bacteria that resist antibiotics. The more often antibiotics are used – even when they are used correctly – the more bacteria have a chance to evolve resistance to those antibio...
