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First Opinion

Opinion: Congress: Confront the superbug crisis and pass PASTEUR

21.11.2022

By 2050, drug-resistant infections caused by “superbugs” could kill 10 million people each year around the world. That’s more than the annual global death toll from cancer. In new research …

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First Opinion

Opinion: FDA and USDA need to get on board with the CDC about reducing antibiotic use in raising animals for food

19.09.2022

The overuse of antibiotics and other antimicrobials in raising farm animals for food may not be equivalent to Covid-19 and climate change as threats to human health, but it is …

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First Opinion

Opinion: FDA needs to follow through on its plan to ban carbadox in animal feed

15.04.2022

An antibiotic known as carbadox can damage genes and cause cancer. The European Union, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom have banned its use for years. So why does the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: New global data showing 1.27 million deaths a year reveal the urgent need to address antimicrobial resistance

20.01.2022

Antimicrobial resistance is a critical global health threat, affecting the human, animal, and environmental health sectors. Although many countries have national action plans to combat this growing and deadly problem, …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

03.11.2021

Natalie Ma knows a lot about antibiotics. She’s familiar with the consequences of antibiotic resistance and the side effects of these essential drugs from her work at Felix Biotechnology, the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: My company is developing new antibiotics. My resistant infection showed me we need them now

29.10.2021

I biked to work in a rainstorm one day in October 2019. As a longtime bike commuter, I was unfazed by the torrents of water as I skidded through puddles …

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First Opinion

Opinion: In the calm before the superbug storm, the world needs to prepare

15.10.2021

Failing to plan, it’s been said, is planning to fail. By this standard, the United States and other countries are planning for failure when it comes to preparing for the …

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Pharma

Older Americans bore the brunt of antibiotic-resistant infections, study finds

07.10.2021

Older Americans were disproportionately affected by several different types of infection for which antibiotics were largely ineffective, resulting in nearly 12,000 deaths and costing the U.S. health care system almost …

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In the Lab

In the hunt for novel antibiotics, will new technology overtake underwater exploration?

08.09.2021

LAKE SUPERIOR — Choppy, windswept waves slap at the hull as our boat nears the last known location of the Lucerne, a schooner that sank to the bottom of Lake …

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