Importance of Using Antibiotics Correctly and Completing the Prescribed Dose
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The misuse of antibiotics coupled to a decrease in the number of novel drugs entering the clinic has led to the development of antibiotic...
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...
Another Public Health Crisis Looms, but there is no Vaccine for this One
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasing threat to global public health; as such, one might expect there to be a handful of solid solutions,...
Antibiotic Resistance is Everybody’s Responsibility
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This article is about my family’s experience with antibiotics
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Antibiotic resistance is everybody’s responsibility
In 1932 my grandfather’s first wife died of tuberculosis. It wasn’t until...
The “Fatal Warning” Antibiotics Don’t Have
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Combating infectious diseases takes a community effort. However, one of the most important messages that the public often hears, but doesn’t understand is “Complete...
Here, There, and Everywhere: How Antibiotic Resistance is Now the Norm
As antibiotic resistance becomes an increasingly urgent global problem, it is important to address how resistance occurs and how it is propagated throughout the general...
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...
Antimicrobials in Canada, by the Numbers
A Canadian Perspective
The numbers don’t lie: antimicrobial misuse in Canada is a pervasive and growing problem. With approximately 23.8 million antibiotic prescriptions written annually,...
Artificial Intelligence: A Solution to the Gap in Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship
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Cite as: Frenkel A, Gross D, Levi S. (2020) Artificial intelligence: A solution to the need for outpatient antimicrobial...
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...
