Being in the pharmaceutical field, the mantle of responsibility falls upon us to forge ahead in the relentless pursuit of solutions to the daunting challenge of AMR
AMR Awareness Week: Behavioural, organisational and environmental aspects are vital for containing resistance
AMR Awareness Week: Natural livestock farming effective bottom-up approach to reduce antibiotic use in dairy sector
AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance
AMR Awareness Week: Innovation in antibiotics research and development is urgently needed
There should be a movement to treat AMR as a national issue, pass policies and fund innovation. Such efforts ...
AMR Awareness Week: Combating AMR in European Union through a One Health approach
Today, one in five bacterial infections in Europe is caused by a pathogen that is resistant to antibiotics
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance is a critical global function
There are many advantages to using a global functions framework rather than just the narrow public goods framework
AMR Awareness Week: Public health needs to be bottom line
New antibiotic research & development model required to ensure people most in need get access to right drugs
AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics
At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high
AMR causes more deaths than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined. What Africa is doing to fight this silent epidemic
In many African countries, poverty and inequality propel the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance
AMR Awareness Week: Antimicrobial research and development needs greater push through policies
We need policies to reward R&D, bring products to market and ensure equitable access and prudent use
AMR Awareness Week: Tackling antimicrobial resistance in agrifood systems through a One Health approach
Adopting a whole-of-society and multi-sectoral approach is essential to address AMR effectively
AMR Awareness Week: FAO’s biosecurity protocol can help create healthy farms with less antibiotic use
The three-zone biosecurity initiative by FAO was originally launched in 2013 to contain avian flu outbreaks
AMR Awareness Week: The link with climate change, water & why we need to incentivise measures against antimicrobial resistance
Many countries now have national AMR action plans, but implementation remains vastly different
AMR Awareness Week: US FDA is too close to meat and drug industries when it comes to protecting public health
FDA has helped to create antibiotic-intensive livestock system of US
AMR Awareness Week: How colistin went from 'holy water' in medicine to 'sewage' of resistance
More research is needed to find out the long-term effects of using colistin on humans
The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
Surveys have found 22% of antimicrobial use in hospitals is inappropriate
India has ignored infertility for too long
India has a history of coercive family planning which ignored infertility. A shift in focus will help women’s health.
In polluted Delhi, children have no place to hide from diseases
Seasonal measures, graded action not enough when millions of children are at risk of chronic ailments
Chad’s first dengue fever outbreak: What you should know
Chad doesn’t have necessary public health preparedness and response capacities, so the risk is high
Law Commission Report on age of consent missed opportunity to de-criminalise sex between minors
The Law Commission’s recommendation would put married girls of 15-18 years at greater risk of marital rape, as there would ...
Devastating societies through war and drugs
Generics giant Teva is top among drug firms found guilty of fuelling the US opioid crisis, agrees to pay ...
US is finally trying to rein in drug giants
Biden government’s push to get Big Pharma to reduce the astronomical rates of prescription medicines is significant
Screen time and ADHD: Looking for the connection
Growing evidence shows that mobile phone use can lead to developmental problems by the time they reach school age
India’s sleeping problem: Can apps help us slumber better?
Urban population in the country is increasingly using mobile applications to fall asleep