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05.17.2024 | WHO updates list of drug-resistant bacteria most threatening to human health
The World Health Organization: The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its updated Bacterial Priority Pathogens List (BPPL) 2024, featuring 15 families of antibiotic-resistant bacteria grouped into critical, high and medium categories for prioritization. The list provides guidance on the development of new and necessary treatments to stop the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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05.13.2024 | Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns
The Guardian | Common infections will kill millions if drug resistance through misuse of antibiotics is not curbed, says England’s ex-chief medical officer
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04.19.2024 | New antibiotics were underprescribed for hard-to-treat infections, study finds
STAT | Although U.S. regulators approved several new antibiotics for combating hard-to-treat bacteria during a recent five-year period, hospital doctors instead gave older, generic remedies to more than 40% of patients battling those stubborn pathogens, according to a new analysis.
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03.06.2024 | Non-profits take over from Big Pharma in new drugs trials
JUTA MEDICAL BRIEF | Effective, affordable antimicrobial drugs are desperately needed around the world, and last November, a clinical trial was shown to be effective against the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea.
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02.28.2024 | Can non-profits beat antibiotic resistance and soaring drug costs?
NATURE | Effective, affordable antimicrobial drugs aren’t moneymakers, despite being desperately needed. Can non-profit organizations pick up the slack?
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02.15.2024 | Could a single synthetic molecule outsmart a variety of drug-resistant bacteria?
An estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. contract infections each year from bacteria resistant to antibiotics, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. More than 35,000 of them die.
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