US non-profit urges quick-service restaurants to get antibiotics off menu
Use of antibiotics in food-producing animals is recognised by WHO as contributing to the global antibiotic resistance burden in humans
Food labels should disclose public health impacts, says minister
Union Minister for Consumer Affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan promises to write to the health ministry
WHO urges action against antibiotic resistance
Experts warn that without effective medicines, infections such as hospital-acquired ventilator-associated pneumonias, urinary tract infections …
Tackling AMR: For LMICs, prevention is the best solution, say experts at CSE's international workshop
Recommendations from workshop to inform High-Level Meeting on AMR scheduled at UN General Assembly later this year
New class of antibiotics that can kill drug-resistant bacteria finally on the horizon?
Zosurabalpin was found to have potent, selective activity against Acinetobacter strains, including drug-resistant strains of Carbapenem-resistant …
AMR Awareness Week: Way forward for pharma companies to ensure antibiotics manufacturing doesn’t drive resistance
The risk of AMR posed by the release of antibiotic manufacturing waste can be prevented
World faces a triple health jeopardy as drug pipeline for new antibiotics dries up
It is time to look at antibiotics as global public good
Health system inequalities in East Africa drive antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance exists in this wider historical and socio-political contex
Fruit flies develop specific defences against common bacteria; may explain human susceptibility to infections
Bacteria in their food and environment mould the immune systems of fruit flies, notes study
AMR in Africa: Big chunk of chicken, pork sold in Kenya found to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Consumption of meat contaminated with bacteria resistant to antibiotics can spread food-borne diseases and cause AMR
Antimicrobial resistance: Here is how National AMR hub helps contain the silent pandemic
India was the highest consumer of antimicrobials, followed by China and the United States
Antimicrobial resistance: These tribal Andhra districts effectively use ethnoveterinary medicine for poultry care
The formal poultry healthcare service system in the tribal districts Alluri Seetha Ramaju and Parvathipuram Manyam is almost non-existent
Antimicrobial resistance: Can sustainable integrated multi-trophic aquaculture reduce AMR in aquatic systems
Developing sustainable and well-maintained integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems could be a new hope to constrain AMR
WHO launches new strategy to tackle antimalarial drug resistance in Africa
Some 96% malaria infections and fatalities worldwide in 2020 were from sub-Saharan Africa
Global Leaders Group call for action to tackle antimicrobial waste
Discharge management from food systems, manufacturing facilities and human health systems into the environment is key, says document
Union agriculture ministry prohibits use of TB antibiotics on crops
The draft order prohibits import, manufacture or formulation of Streptomycin and Tetracycline for use in agriculture from February 1, 2022; …
COVID-19 is paving the way for an increase in superbugs
There is some evidence that multidrug-resistant bacteria are among germs causing secondary COVID-19 infections
Kumatiya, part of regular Rajasthani diet, has health and environmental benefits
Like a poor cousin, kumatiya is not as well known as ker or sangri, but without it, panchkuta would not be the same
High incidence of drug-resistant bacteria found in ready-to-cook poultry products
The study raises question on effectiveness of modern food processing techniques to produce microbiologically safe food products
Health ministers in G20 Summit commit to address antimicrobial resistance
Through Berlin Declaration, the health ministers emphasised the need for combating AMR through appropriate monitoring and surveillance
Focus on environmental effects of antimicrobial resistance: experts
Working groups formulated input guidelines for addressing animal and environmental aspects of antimicrobial resistance
Researchers find new gene providing resistance to last-resort antibiotic
The finding comes eight months after the first-ever gene responsible for resistance to colistin, a last-resort drug for multi-drug-resistant …
AMR ticking timebomb: Drug-resistant gonorrhea outbreak in Kenya major fertility threat, researchers warn
Gonorrhoea is the second-most common disease to be sexually transmitted across the world
Broad-spectrum antibiotics increase risk of obesity in children below 2
Study shows that children given broad-spectrum antibiotics were two times more likely to be obese than other children
High-level event on AMR emphasises prevention approaches to tackle pipeline, access crisis for antibiotics & diagnostics
Global coordination necessary to develop new and affordable diagnostic testing, vaccines and antimicrobial alternatives, says Sunita Narain