The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

Medical research has brought slow but significant changes to disease diagnostics, drugs, and surgery. Disruptive medical inventions have converted some "surgical" diseases to medical ones, reducing the need for surgery. Examples include polio vaccine, antibiotics for gastric ulcers, and Ponsetti plaster casts for club foot. We hope for more such…

Deadly superbugs are unlikely to develop resistance to a new antibiotic produced by bacteria, scientists say.

The measures could prevent bacteria-carrying resistance genes from getting into the gut, researchers said.

AMR in the environment is being identified through sewage surveillance in major cities. CSIR-CCMB and CSIR-IICT are carrying out studies and gene profiling to check antibiotics not working. TIGS director Rakesh Mishra stresses the need to scale up surveillance.

Discovered by sheer accident in the late 1920s, penicillin was the world's first antibiotic.

Chemists say global supply issues and increased demand behind lack of stock, but antibiotic substitutions are available

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused over 1.27 million deaths worldwide – and it’s projected that antimicrobial resistance (which includes bacterial resistance to antibiotics) may contribute to ten million deaths per year by 2050.

He will stay in intensive care for the next few days with hopes that intravenous antibiotics can clear the infection.

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