World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: All You Need To Know About Antibiotic Resistance
3 years, 1 month ago

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: All You Need To Know About Antibiotic Resistance

News 18  

The World Health Organization annually hosts the World Antibiotic Awareness Week, also known as World Antimicrobial Awareness Week. Theme for World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2021 WAAW 2021 will have the theme ‘Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance.’ While World Antimicrobial Awareness Week’s primary tagline is ‘Antimicrobials: Handle with Care.’ Antibiotics have been a crucial aspect of contemporary medicine since their discovery. History and Significance of World Antibiotic Awareness Week In 2007, this concept was proposed for the first time in Europe. WAAW is an important event because it raises awareness among the general public and healthcare personnel about antibiotic resistance, which is a worldwide health concern.

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How antimicrobial resistance is a silent pandemic
1 month, 1 week ago

How antimicrobial resistance is a silent pandemic

Firstpost  

India, with its scientific expertise, vibrant civil society, and rich tradition of public health innovation, can lead the global fight against antibiotic resistance. In 2017, the World Bank estimated that by 2050, unchecked AMR could wipe away 3.8 per cent of global gross domestic product each year and push 2.8 crore people into poverty. Losses resulting from the impact of …

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia
3 months, 2 weeks ago

ICMR report highlights ‘antibiotic resistance’ to UTIs, Typhoid, and Pneumonia

Hindustan Times  

A recent report by the Indian Council of Medical Research said that diseases like urinary tract infections, blood infections, pneumonia, and typhoid have developed resistance to commonly used antibiotics, making treatment more difficult. The Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network 2023 annual report findings show a worrying increase in antibiotic resistance nationwide. The ICMR’s Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Surveillance Network …

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance
1 year, 1 month ago

The looming threat of antimicrobial resistance

Hindustan Times  

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to global public health as disease-causing germs develop resistance to life-saving antibiotics. As per a Lancet study, in 2019, five million human deaths were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance worldwide, including nearly 1.3 million human deaths attributable to bacterial AMR. The theme for WAAW 2023 was ‘Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together’, which underscored the need …

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat
1 year, 1 month ago

Antibiotic resistance a looming, lethal global threat

Hindustan Times  

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten our health, and yet only a few pharmaceutical companies are still conducting research into new antibiotic drugs to bring them to market. Infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, known as MRSA, are particularly difficult to treat The independent, nonprofit organization has said drug resistance is a major threat, and has called for more research into new …

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO
1 year, 1 month ago

Antimicrobial resistance a significant threat to global public health: WHO

The Hindu  

The South-East Asia regional office of the World Health Organization warned that antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for approximately 1.27 million deaths annually across the world, with current estimates placing the number of casualties in South Asia at 3,89 000. “By 2050, according to a report by the World Bank, antimicrobial resistance will be responsible for a decrease of up …

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance
1 year, 6 months ago

Putting minds and funds together to find ways of tackling drug resistance

The Hindu  

Recently, in a hospital in the Indian city of Hyderabad, a patient in the ICU was realy ill with an extensive drug resistant bacterial infection. Abdul Ghafur, infectious diseases specialist, and one of the authors of the Chennai Declaration, a joint medical community effort to handle antimicrobial resistance in the country, says the precedent set by the COVID-19 pandemic and …

Learning to use antimicrobials responsibly
2 years ago

Learning to use antimicrobials responsibly

Hindustan Times  

Antibiotic resistance that first appeared in hospitals in the 1950s is now a global public health challenge. Overlooking this behaviour of excessive use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials from the Watch and Reserve group by physicians does not portend well for the times to come and may have severe consequences for the treatment of drug-resistant infections in Indian patients and associated morbidity …

UK scientists’ breakthrough could save millions from drug-resistant infections
2 years, 9 months ago

UK scientists’ breakthrough could save millions from drug-resistant infections

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Our ultimate goal is to have a number of viable drugs from our modular …

Coronavirus outbreak a trailer of what anti-microbial resistance can do tomorrow; it's time to limit intake of antibiotics before it's too late
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak a trailer of what anti-microbial resistance can do tomorrow; it's time to limit intake of antibiotics before it's too late

Firstpost  

Experts dealing with anti-microbial resistance have feared uncontrollable pathogens — bacteria as well as viruses — much before COVID-19 spread across the globe Experts dealing with anti-microbial resistance have feared uncontrollable pathogens — bacteria as well as viruses — much before the novel coronavirus spread across the globe. The country’s central drug regulator in 2014 banned over the counter sale …

Doctors share image to show we are losing the '10-year challenge' against antibiotic resistance
5 years, 11 months ago

Doctors share image to show we are losing the '10-year challenge' against antibiotic resistance

Daily Mail  

Compared to their 2009 10-year challenge photo, antibiotics don't look so good too good. Although there is no way to know for sure what exactly is in the dishes, an antibiotic resistance expert told Daily Mail Online they demonstrate exactly he would expect to see in such a test of antibiotics against bacteria that become resistant. Dr Kate Flavin didn't …

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