Posts in category Antibiotic Resistance
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MOVING FROM SOUTH ASIA TO EUROPE TO NORTH AMERICA:
A Globalizing Health Crisis
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Canadian science under scrutiny – a series of 15 articles
1] 2014 CMAJ CIHR reforms contradict consultants 2] 2015 Feb 17 CMAJ CIHR modifies peer review reforms 3] 2015 Feb 17 CMAJ Peer Review Conflicts surface at CIHR 4] 2015 …
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Nature Medicine: Biomedical research during the COVID lockdown
Government-funded medical research bodies in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia say they are committed to maintaining funding continuity for biomedical research. So far, only in Canada has a major …
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Awaiting federal solutions to antimicrobial resistance threats
15 Years after Ottawa abandoned its antimicrobial resistance plan, action awaits
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Up to 50% of antibiotics mis-prescribed
CMAJ Jan 17 2017 Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem Antibiotic overprescribing a growing problem
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Should Canada focus on Global Antimicrobial Resistance?
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s new global health research guru wants Ottawa to put antimicrobial resistance on its list of foreign-aid research priorities. 2016-cmaj-nov-28-2016-should-canada-focus-on-antimicrobial-resistance
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Why Antibiotics Are Failing Us
Antibiotics have saved billions of lives, yet we’re increasingly immune to their benefits, in part because of their widespread, unregulated use in the chickens we eat. Consumers, growers, government — …
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Canada behind in regulating farmyard antibiotics
New restrictions on the use of antibiotics on farm animals in both the United States and Canada may help mitigate risks to human health due to antibiotic resistance. However serious …
Sweden leads in developing new antibiotics
Linus Sandegren’s hunt for new antibiotic drugs started with a shock. As a drug researcher in Uppsala, a small city in southern den, Sandegren witnessed Europe’s first outbreak of spectrum …