DRUG resistance in bacteriaPUBLIC healthCONTENT analysisDOCUMENTARY filmsIn this article, we discuss the role of participatory video (PV) as a tool for developing community-level solutions to 'Antimicrobial Resistance' (AMR) in Nepal....
Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infections in humans, animals and plants. Antimicrobial resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites resist the effects of available antimicrobial medications. This makes it easier for infectious diseases to spread and to cause more ...
Fighting antimicrobial resistance involves developing new antibiotics and making sure they reach the people who need them. This is what organizations like theGlobal Antibiotic Research and Development Partnershipwere created to do. We are seeing encouraging progress for an antibiotic against drug-resistant ...
Using antibiotics when they are not needed or taking the wrong antibiotic significantly contributes to antibiotic resistance. This is because antibiotics not only kill harmful bacteria, but they can also kill helpful bacteria that may protect you from the harmful bacteria. When helpful bacteria die, ...
Given the severity of the antibiotic-resistance problem, it would be a good idea to find out more about them.The first step is to run more clinical trials. Interest from Western firms is growing. But it is being held back by the fact that phages are an even less appealing investment ...
In the 1947 “What Is an Antibiotic or Antibiotic Substance?” paper, Waksman wrote that he had been asked to provide a term for materials such as penicillin and other new materials with similar antimicrobial properties “in July, 1941, by Dr. A. [sic] Flynn, editor of Acceptance Despite...
What to do about antimicrobial resistance Successful eradication of smallpox and the treaty to reduce smoking may suggest the wayBefore global activities to eradicate smallpox were intensified in 1967 an estimated two million people were dying each year of the infection, with bl... Heymann,L David...
SPORTS and the Media: Synergy is the key to winning success The current buzz for the melding together of capabilities and interests is synergy, as anyone who has even glanced at a story about a giant merger in the paper or attended an introductory business school course knows. The television...
Re: What to do about antimicrobial resistance: WHO publishes list of bacteria for which new antibiotics are urgently neededdoi:10.1136/bmj.i3087BMJ
The widespread implementation of Antibiotics has saved millions of lives and yet within 80 years of the introduction of penicillin, antimicrobial resistance has been associated with nearly 5 million deaths.1It is postulated that AMR may overtake cancer as a leading cause of mortality by 20502. It...