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07.06.17

Global Superbugs

Fact check: Could the new ‘supercharged’ antibiotic really spell the end of drug resistance?

Scientists claim their beefed up version of vancomycin could ‘eliminate the threat’ of superbugs. But experts say it will not work against the majority of deadly infections.

26.05.17

Global Superbugs

Lack of information on antibiotic use on animals is a major problem, say experts

A Bureau event brought together leading figures to discuss superbugs, which have become a global public health emergency.

22.05.17

Global Superbugs

Big Pharma coalition to take on superbugs

Corporate alliance keeping tabs on promise to reduce the environmental impact from making drugs.

06.05.17

Global Superbugs

Big Pharma's pollution is creating deadly superbugs while the world looks the other way

Global supply chains are strictly regulated to ensure the safety of medicines, but environmental standards do not feature in international rulebooks.

21.04.17

Global Superbugs

Worse than MRSA: Doctors call for urgent action on deadly superbug threat

Doctors are warning that the rise of an almost untreatable superbug, immune to some of the last-line antibiotics available to hospitals, poses a grave threat and needs urgent government action.

23.03.17

Global Superbugs

A deadly superbug is silently spreading through UK hospitals

There have already been outbreaks of a highly resistant bug in Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Birmingham, but deaths are not centrally recorded.

24.02.17

Global Superbugs

Use of ‘last hope’ antibiotic soaring in English hospitals

We should be "terrified" that prescriptions of colistin are rising steeply, say experts, as it's evidence of an increase in the most dangerous types of superbugs.

15.12.16

Global Superbugs

‘Sepsis from a superbug nearly killed me’

Dr Nina Khaira, a 39-year-old dentist from Cornwall got sepsis from an antibiotic-resistant bacteria while giving birth to her daughter Vega.

11.12.16

Global Superbugs

Superbugs killing twice as many people as government says

Superbugs are now killing more patients than breast cancer and at least twice as many people as the government estimate, experts have warned.

18.10.16

Global Superbugs

How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

There are no checks or regulations in place to stop the NHS buying drugs from factories in India which are helping to create superbugs.

07.10.16

Global Superbugs

Superbug spread to Norwegian pigs from foreign farm workers

Norwegian pigs became infected with a superbug common in the Danish herd – despite having a ban on live imports – through farm workers who had worked abroad, a study has found.

27.09.16

Global Superbugs

Soaring levels of antibiotic resistance found in supermarket chickens

The UK’s most common type of food poisoning bug is showing drastically increased resistance to antibiotics, testing has revealed, which could mean the infection becomes harder and harder to treat.

21.09.16

Global Superbugs

UN agrees landmark declaration to tackle antibiotic resistance crisis

World leaders will commit £600 million to fighting antibiotic resistance – a public health emergency which is predicted to kill more people than cancer by 2050 if left unchecked.

15.09.16

Global Superbugs

How Big Pharma’s industrial waste is fuelling the rise in superbugs worldwide

A new report highlights how dirty production methods and dumping of industrial waste at antibiotic factories in China and India is fuelling the growth of superbugs, which pose a catastrophic threat to...

05.09.16

Global Superbugs

Antibiotic resistant E.coli found in one in four samples of supermarket chicken

One in four samples of chicken from the UK’s largest supermarkets contains antibiotic-resistant E.Coli bacteria, new research has revealed. The bacterium was found in meat from Asda, Aldi, Co-op, Morr...

Fact check: Could the new ‘supercharged’ antibiotic really spell the end of drug resistance?

Lack of information on antibiotic use on animals is a major problem, say experts

Big Pharma coalition to take on superbugs

Big Pharma's pollution is creating deadly superbugs while the world looks the other way

Worse than MRSA: Doctors call for urgent action on deadly superbug threat

A deadly superbug is silently spreading through UK hospitals

Use of ‘last hope’ antibiotic soaring in English hospitals

‘Sepsis from a superbug nearly killed me’

Superbugs killing twice as many people as government says

How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

Superbug spread to Norwegian pigs from foreign farm workers

Soaring levels of antibiotic resistance found in supermarket chickens

UN agrees landmark declaration to tackle antibiotic resistance crisis

How Big Pharma’s industrial waste is fuelling the rise in superbugs worldwide

Antibiotic resistant E.coli found in one in four samples of supermarket chicken

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