Antimicrobial Drug Resistance

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.

Each year from Nov. 18 to Nov. 24, WHO observes World AMR Awareness Week, a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance and promote best practices among One Health stakeholders.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America outlined its top policy priorities for the field of ID, including finding new ways to incentivize antibiotic development, increasing ID compensation and responding to global threats.

PHILADELPHIA — At this year’s World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress, Ricardo Chaves, MD, PhD, the executive medical director of clinical development at Debiopharm, moderated a panel on novel antibiotics.

PHILADELPHIA — In this video, Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA, discusses a panel he moderated at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress on how to move the topic of antimicrobial resistance to the forefront in conversations about preparedness.

Cephalexin given twice daily is as effective as a regimen of four daily doses for treating women with uncomplicated UTIs, researchers reported.

The prevalence of long COVID has stabilized since January 2023, with roughly one in 10 adults with previous COVID-19 experiencing some form of the condition, a recent study showed.

More than two out of every five infection-related deaths in the Americas in 2019 were associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance, according to a new study.

HOUSTON — IV treatment with a metallo-beta-lactam inhibitor could be an effective strategy to fight resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, a researcher reported here.