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Drug-resistant infections: Confronting an escalating crisis

Drug-resistant infections: Confronting an escalating crisis

THE FORUM Video recording of panel discussion at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. Kevin Outterson, Helen Boucher, Lauri Hicks and Marc Lipsitch discuss what it will take to win the race against superbugs. Better prescribing practices and patient information, better stewardship, and better financial incentives and rewards for new diagnostics, vaccines, new classes of antibiotics and other therapeutics are all urgently needed to address the rise of drug resistance around the world. Panel moderated by NBC’s David Freeman.
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