Antibiotic Stewardship: The Role Medical Laboratories Play
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I often refer to antimicrobial resistance as the slow-burning pandemic that continues to spread like a smoldering wildfire – picture a large expanding, ignored...
The Discovery Awards: New Seed Funding Available
A new round of seed funding has been made available for teams working on diagnostic tests to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use. The Discovery Awards 2017 will...
Tackling Antibiotic Resistance – A Prize Approach to Open Innovation
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Background: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most significant public health threats facing the world. There is a lack of new antibiotics, and the...
Canada Putting Up No Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
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A number of recent developments in the last three months have catapulted antimicrobial resistance onto the world stage. Many other countries, such as the...
Stewards Working to Save Antibiotics: Pharmacy & The Medical Laboratory
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Approximately 1 in 25 patients hospitalized in a U.S. acute care hospital has at least one healthcare–associated infection (HAI), adding up to over 700,000...
I guess everything changes when it happens to you! Editorial Reflections on World...
Editorial By Rodney E. Rohde, PhD
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On any given day, approximately 1 in 25 inpatients in U.S. acute care hospitals has at least one healthcare–associated...
Superbugs : A Primer
The introduction of antibiotics into modern healthcare has added years onto the average lifespan of humans in developed countries. However, the widespread use and...
The AMR Challenge: Accelerating the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Later this month, as world leaders assemble at the 74th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the US HHS Secretary, Alex Azar,...
Has the Antibiotic Course Had Its Day?
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Therapeutic interventions for infectious diseases are complicated by multiple factors, including unknowns surrounding the identity of the infectious agent(s), the bacterial load, and the...
Why Antibiotics are not the Answer to your Cold or Flu
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Colds and flu are viral infections. If you happen to be very unlucky and get the flu, take a break, rest up, and go...
