Antibiotics

Walking pneumonia, a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, tends to be most common among older children and adolescents but in 2024 has been rampant among young children.
Health

Could your cough be walking pneumonia? Here are the symptoms of the spiking bacterial illness

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November 1, 2024
Stella Kyriakides, European Union commissioner for health and food safety, speaks at the session “Facing a World Without Antibiotics” at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, on Tuesday. Antimicrobial resistance currently causes over 1 million deaths each year and contributes to 5 millions, experts say. By 2050, it could cause as many as 10 million deaths annually.
Health

Failure of some prescription drugs could kill 10 million annually by 2050, Davos leaders warn, calling the issue a ‘silent pandemic’

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January 17, 2024
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STD rates are rising to record levels and the CDC plans to approve an antibiotic as a ‘morning-after pill’ for gay and bisexual men

By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
October 2, 2023
Antibiotics AI
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How A.I. helps sniff out new antibiotics

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February 25, 2020
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Scientists are turning to A.I. to discover new antibiotics that can fight superbugs

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February 25, 2020
MRSA bacteria. Coloured transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a Gram-positive, round (coccus) bacterium.
Commentary

How to Cure the Antibiotic Industry’s Profitability Infection

By Megan Blewett, Bob Kocher and Bobby Shady
November 14, 2019
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Health

The U.K. Just Confirmed Its 1st Case of ‘Super Gonorrhea.’ And It’s Freaking Out Health Experts

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March 29, 2018
Food and Farm Livestock Antibiotics
Health

Your Next Lifesaving Antibiotic May Not Work. Blame This.

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November 9, 2017
Life On A Dairy Farm The Closed Herd
International

The WHO is Urging Agribusiness to Stop Using Antibiotics on Healthy Animals

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November 8, 2017
NOOR ALAM(20) has been suffering from TB for last 3 months
Health

The U.S. Government Has Issued a Dire Warning on Tuberculosis

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May 11, 2017
A silver foil strip with white medicine tablets, displayed
Health

A Promising Antibiotic for a Deadly Infection Is Sending Paratek Pharma’s Stock Soaring

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April 4, 2017
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The WHO Says These 12 Deadly Superbugs Pose the Greatest Health Threats to Humans

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February 27, 2017
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Retail

Why Perdue Is the Biggest User of Baby Wipes

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October 6, 2016
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Retail

McDonald’s Chicken Conundrum: Can It Be Sustainable and Humane?

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October 4, 2016
Five Things You Didn’t Know About McDonald’s and Cage-Free Eggs
Retail

Five Things You Didn’t Know About McDonald’s and Cage-Free Eggs

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August 18, 2016

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