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World Health Organization Names 12 Superbugs. Most Are Present In India.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant `priority pathogens' -a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the gre...

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Health

Opinion: Tuberculosis Is A Forgotten Priority For Child Health

I was exposed to the plight of children with tuberculosis early in my 32 years of experience as a physician. I was a medical intern in a provincial hospital in Peru’s...

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Sustainable Development

How Worried Should We Be About The 'Nightmare Bacteria' Making Headlines?

 “It’s not that this bacteria is highly transmissible,” said Dr. Emil Lesho, director of WRAIR’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Su...

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Health

The Battle Against Superbugs

The sugar-loving Klebsiella pneumoniae, that resembles a squished-up earplug, can strike fear into the hearts of surgeons and scientists. The bacterium can repel even the m...

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Health

India Lauded For Red Line Campaign On Antibiotics

India’s idea of putting a red line on antibiotic packages to curb their over-the-counter sale is now being cited as a model that can be used globally to counter the r...

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Sustainable Development

From Droughts TO Disease, 2015 Highlighted Our Food System's Shortcomings

2015 was a bit of a news roller-coaster when it came to the things we eat. We?ve made some progress over the year in some areas but struggled to cope in others as we faced ...

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Health

Global Restrictions On Farm Antibiotics Needed To Fight Superbugs, Report Says

There?? no denying the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals and the development of antibiotic resistance, according to a new report commissioned by UK Pr...

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Sustainable Development

Global Restrictions On Farm Antibiotics Needed To Fight Superbugs, Report Says

There?s no denying the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farm animals and the development of antibiotic resistance, according to a new report commissioned by UK Pr...

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Health

WHO Survey Reveals Public Misunderstanding About Antibiotic Resistance

Public knowledge about antibiotic resistance is still weak and this is something we should worry about. A new survey conducted in a number of countries shows that people ha...

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Health

WHO Urges Action Against Antibiotic Resistance.

Cautioning against the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs which leads to resistance to medicines and treatment failure, the World Health Organization has urg...

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