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UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics

Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAO

The Guardian - UK

‘Limited’ progress in addressing health threat of antibiotic resistance – report

A new report has called for more action to address the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.

The Independent UK

Student died from sepsis after antibiotics error in London hospital, inquest hears

Potentially life-saving drug was prescribed for William Hewes but not given quickly enough due to communication mix-up

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Common antibiotic that treats diarrhea can also treat inflammatory bowel disease: Study

Four out of five patients who participated in a study, led by researchers from the University of Birmingham, were cured after taking a commonly used antibiotic that treats diarrhea.

The Times of India

China makes some of Americans’ most common medicines. They won’t be spared from Trump’s tariffs

Everyday painkillers, antibiotics, cancer medications, blood thinners and more are just some of the drugs that the U.S. relies on China to help manufacture

The Independent UK

Doctor describes delay in giving sick baby antibiotics, inquest hears

Ben Condon, who was two months old, died at Bristol Children’s Hospital in April 2015

Evening Standard

Oyster ‘blood’ holds promise for combating drug-resistant superbugs: new research

Superbugs that are resistant to existing antibiotics are a growing health problem around the world. Globally, nearly five million people die from antimicrobial resistant infections each year. The annual toll of antimicrobial resistant infections is expected to rise by 70%, with an estimated 40 million deaths between now and 2050.

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Can antibiotics work against HMPV virus?

It is a common human practice or error you can say precisely, to pop in an antibiotic when something does not seem okay. Be it a headache, stomachache or fever, people do not bother to ask doctors and simply take these medicines which are easily available in stores.

The Times of India

Antibiotic emergency ‘could claim 40 million lives in next 25 years’

As superbugs spread across the globe, death rates from antimicrobial resistance are set to double, says England’s former chief medical officer

The Guardian - UK

10 'superbug' stories from 2024, from bacterial 'Kryptonite' to deep-sea antibiotics

Antibiotic and antifungal drug resistance pose a major public health threat. Live Science is covering the spread of this problem and the potential solutions that are emerging in turn.

LiveScience

How to detect more antimicrobial resistant bacteria in our waterways

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in waterways presents a critical threat. If commonly used antibiotics are deemed useless, decades of progress in human medicine and agriculture could be undermined.

The Conversation

Highly drug-resistant cholera strain is spreading rapidly: What scientists are saying

A highly drug-resistant strain of cholera, resistant to 10 antibiotics including two of the three most commonly used for treatment, has spread across multiple countries, raising concerns about its potential to cause widespread devastation.

The Times of India

Call for rollout of vaccines after bacteria outbreak

Australia has recorded the highest number of a deadly bacterial infection in two decades, as experts call for newer vaccines to be rolled out.

AAP

'Medicine needed an alternative': How the 'phage whisperer' aims to replace antibiotics with viruses

"Both understood phages as medicinal agents, which the rest of the medical field viewed as nonsensical."

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Letters to the Editor: November 2024

On antibiotics, accommodations, and scorn

The Independent UK

‘Impossible to treat’ superbugs on rise in Ukraine, scientists warn

Bacteria exhibit extreme antibiotic resistance

Dynamite News

Telanagana: Spurious antibiotics worth Rs 1.33 crore seized from a pharmaceutical company

The drugs-control-administration">Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, seized a huge stock of antibiotics worth Rs 1.33 Crores from a manufacturing facility on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Conversation

Why is it so difficult to make a new antibiotic?

The discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. Before antibiotics, childbirth, a urinary tract infection, or a simple cut could lead to death from infection.

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The Conversation

We studied drug-resistant bacteria on hospital surfaces in six countries. This is what we found

Antimicrobial resistance happens when bacteria and other microbes that can cause infections gain the ability to resist treatment by antibiotics or other antimicrobial medicines.

The Conversation

Antibiotic resistance threatens to “undo a century of medical progress”: 5 essential reads

Who hasn’t been prescribed antibiotics by a doctor – for a chest infection or perhaps a sore throat? It’s terrifying to think that these infections can become life threatening if the antibiotic drugs needed to treat them stop working.

The Conversation

Flies carry bacteria – and some of those are resistant to antibiotics. What we found in three South African hospices

Houseflies live close to humans and domesticated animals and because they are so mobile they can easily spread bacteria that make people sick.

The Guardian - UK

‘It is a pandemic’: UK’s envoy on superbugs says scale of threat underestimated

Dame Sally Davies says action on deadly antibiotic-resistant infections must be prioritised

The Times of India

The race against resistance: Reinforcing India's anti-infective arsenal

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis, threatening to undo decades of medical progress and plunge us into a post-antibiotic era where even minor infections could prove fatal. This silent pandemic demands immediate and decisive action from all stakeholders before we are left vulnerable to previously treatable infections. The…

The Conversation

Fighting antibiotic resistance at the source – using machine learning to identify bacterial resistance genes and the drugs to block them

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat.

The Independent UK

Common antibiotic use linked to rise of ‘almost untreatable’ superbug

Rifaximin is commonly used to treat liver disease

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