It’s not too Late (to Fight Back Against Infectious Diseases)
Antibiotic resistance is a major threat reaching pandemic levels. Bacterial infections that were once easily treated with the antibiotics are becoming resistant to not...
The Post-Antibiotic Era
In April 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report detailing the serious threat of antibiotic resistance. The ‘post-antibiotic’ era is fast approaching...
6 Factors That Have Caused Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance has become a global threat, and with Antibiotic Awareness Week, it is important to understand the series of events that have led...
Global Antibiotic Awareness Week
Antibiotics are sometimes revered as one of humankind’s greatest discoveries. Thanks to antibiotics, the lives of billions of people have been saved. The ubiquity of...
Occupational Risk on the Rise: Turning a Blind Eye
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In hospitals and health clinics, the goal is to always treat the patients. An emerging concern is the welfare of the health care workers...
Public Health and Emerging Disease Outbreaks: Why Talking to the Community is a Good...
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The keys to combat infectious diseases are out there. Due to insufficient communication between key players, we still don't know how to compile all...
Four lesser known facts about Dengue
Like many tropical countries, India witnesses a cyclical spike in the number of Dengue cases every 4-5 years1. The current year has been one...
Antibiotic Resistance – The return of the Four Horsemen
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Antibiotics are almost single-handedly responsible for eliminating deaths and mortality caused by infectious disease. However, antibiotic resistance is disseminating among deadly pathogens, returning us...
The case for Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Student Call to Action.
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Antibiotic resistance is a modern-day crisis. Medical professionals are quickly running out of antibiotics that we can use to treat deadly bacterial infections and...
