Showing posts with label Antimicrobial Resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Antimicrobial Resistance. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

WHO: Survey & Analysis On Global Response To Antimicrobial Resistance

›
  # 9990   In early 2012 World Health Director-General Margaret Chan expressed a dire warning about our dwindling antibiotic arsen...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

India: MSF Calls For `Rational’ Antibiotic Use In Treating TB

›
MSF Briefing Report   # 8395   Tomorrow (March 24th) is World TB Day , and the focus this year is on multidrug-resistant tubercul...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

CDC: Improving Antibiotic Prescribing Practices In Hospitals

›
  # 8349     On Monday, in CDC Telebriefing (March 4th): Improving Antibiotic Prescribing Practices , I wrote about an upcoming C...
Monday, March 03, 2014

CDC Telebriefing (March 4th): Improving Antibiotic Prescribing Practices

›
  # 8342   For years we’ve heard dire warnings of a future where most of our most important antibiotics are rendered impotent ag...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Study: NDM-1 Bacteria Survive & Thrive In Two Chinese Wastewater Treatment Plants

›
Photo Credit USGS – Wastewater: The Primary Treatment Process 1. Screening 2. Pumping 3. Aerating 4. Removing sludge 5. Removing Scum 6...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Surviving Winter’s Ills Without Abusing Antibiotics

›
Credit CDC , FDA , HHS     # 7987   As mentioned yesterday (see The Lancet: Antibiotic Resistance - The Need For Global Solutio...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

The Lancet: Antibiotic Resistance - The Need For Global Solutions

›
Credit CDC Vital Signs   # 7985   With tomorrow (Nov. 18th) marking Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Day in Europe, and kic...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Referral: McKenna On CDC Antibiotic Resistance Report

›
# 7780   Yesterday the CDC released a comprehensive report on the threat of growing antibiotic resistance, with Director Thomas F...
Monday, March 11, 2013

UK CMO: Antimicrobial Resistance Poses `Catastrophic Threat’

›
PDF Link   # 6997   The growing threat of antibiotic resistance has made a great many headlines over the years, but real progress...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

CDC HAN Advisory: Increase In CRE Reports In The United States

›
      Credit CDC HAN # 6945   Regular readers are aware that - while still fairly rare -reports of patients with CRE ( C...