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Antibiotic resistance: The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming
On May 5, 2010, Pew hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill in collaboration with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Louise Slaughter, and Rep. Howard Berman. Panelists included an official from the World Health...
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Antibiotic resistance: Bugs and drugs…
Jim Caryl at Gene Gym is laboring to make antibiotic resistance understandable by the lay public. In Jim’s post Bugs and drugs… he explains the various resistance mechanisms, and in particular “The...
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Antibiotic resistance: NDM-1 alarm in the UK
My understanding is that about 16% of infections are now resistant to multiple classes of antibiotics. The Scientist polls readers on the topic (79% real danger, 21% media hype): The front page of The...
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Antimicrobial resistance: revisiting the "tragedy of the commons"
John Conly is a Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is...
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Nanoparticles successfully take down MRSA bacteria
These announcements usually turn into a fizzle. I hope this Ars Technica release evolves into a useful therapy because we are in very serious trouble on the antibiotic front. Traditional antibiotics...
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Multi-drug resistant staph in 25% of supermarket meat samples
This should make you very angry – that farmers are still allowed to use unjustified, excessive application of antibiotics in industrial animal husbandry. Maryn McKenna writing for Ars Technica reports...
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New Drugs Cost Even More Than You Think
The depressing figure above was referenced in McArdle’s “Pharma Spending Less on Finding New Drugs“; Copyright The Boston Consulting Group. NME’s per $B R&D spent (constant dollars), where NME’s...
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Antibiotic-resistance: we need better incentives
(…) And going to the hospital has itself become alarmingly risky. Already, 1.7 million people in the U.S. acquire infections in the hospital each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the...
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IBM research: hydrogels of “ninja polymers” to fight drug-resistant bacteria
Most of what I read on antibiotic resistance, hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are very depressing. Humanity seems to be an accelerating train — the destination a pre-antibiotic world — where surgery...
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Antibiotic resistance: a return to the pre-antibiotic world is coming faster...
Photo credit: Julian Stratenschulte/EPA/Corbis We are seeing an alarming increase in new reports on the growth rate of antibiotic resistance. We cannot forecast the future date when we will return to...
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CDC report: Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013
Every year, more than two million people in the United States get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to a new report issued by the...
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Megan McArdle and Maryn McKenna on the post-antibiotic planet
…our post-antibiotic grandchildren will be less healthy than we are: more likely to die young or spend their lives crippled by disease. In the face of such a large problem, it’s an amazement that our...
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Maryn McKenna: When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too
Maryn McKenna has a terrifying “report from the field” of the fast-approaching post-antibiotic world. That we are living in New Zealand amplifies the report only slightly, because this reality is...
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Recommendations for the control of Multi-drug resistant Gram-negatives>...
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Recommendations for the control of Multi-drug resistant Gram-negatives: carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (October 2013). Sydney....
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FDA restricts antibiotic use in livestock
This is the best news in a long time. WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and...
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FDA: stop buying antibacterial soap products
Every day, consumers use antibacterial soaps and body washes at home, work, school and in other public settings. Especially because so many consumers use them, FDA believes that there should be clearly...
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The File Drawer Effect
This is not an academics-only esoteric debate. It is about whether new, effective drugs are released. It is about how accurate is our knowledge of reality. Here is astronomer Phil Plait quoted in this...
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How to protect effective antibiotics: a conversation with Doc Ricky
I believe that the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance should be recognized as an urgent public health priority – possibly the #1 priority. E.g., CRE [1]. After reading Betsy McCaughey [2] “U.S....
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Re-Examining the FDA Antibiotics Decision: Banning Growth Promoters Won’t Be...
Chart via Hagan Vigre, Danish Technical University, 2009 Further to the Denmark experience, Maryn McKenna has a new essay at Wired The object lesson in changing antibiotic patterns is Denmark, which...
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Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling...
Maryn McKenna cited this book, so after reading hair-curling reviews I just bought the Kindle edition. Maybe no sleep tonight… Antibiotic-resistant microbes infect more than 2 million Americans and...
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