Story: UN health agency: Antibiotic resistance forces updates to recommended treatment for sexually transmitted infections 30 August 2016 "The United Nations health agency has issued new guidelines for the treatment of three common sexually transmitted [...]
Chemistry World is reporting "A new international network that grew out of President Obama’s 2015 antibiotic initiative aims to rejuvenate the antibiotic pipeline over the next five years with the help of hundreds of [...]
The Washington post is reporting that "U.S. and British officials announced an ambitious collaboration Thursday designed to accelerate the discovery and development of new antibiotics in the fight against one of the modern era’s [...]
The BBC is reporting that "Prof Neil Gow, from the University of Aberdeen, said more than one million people die from fungal infections around the world each year. Yet there are no vaccines and [...]
"Antibiotics are life savers. But like all drugs, they have side effects, and some may be dangerous and deadly. This is especially true with a class of drugs called fluoroquinolones that include Levaquin, Cipro, and [...]
While statistics show that victory is still far off, scientists still have hope that we will succeed. So many of us develop this horrible disease because cancer is a byproduct of the process of [...]
As antibiotic resistance grows in breadth and severity, we have to look beyond traditional sources of new antimicrobial compounds. This video profiles William Fenical, a researcher who believes that the solution to antibiotic resistance lies at the [...]
via theIndependent.co.ukby Charlie Cooper, theIndependent.co.uk Story: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/british-university-makes-antibiotic-resistance-breakthrough-9546497.html Researchers and scientists at the research-intensive University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK recently announced that they have found an “Achilles heel” of a particularly significant group of [...]
via Wired.comby Maryn McKenna, Wired.com Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/06/cdc-vim-squid/ There was breaking news last month, reported in the Emerging Infectious Diseases (a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), as Canadian researchers identified a highly resistant [...]
via WHO.org from WHO's official News Release Story: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/amr-report/en/ The biocidium news blog has recently featured an array of posts referencing various news and media outlets, and their respective takes and interpretations on the WHO's first [...]
