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February 28, 2017Public Health
India Tackles Superbug Menace with New Antibiotic Guidelines: The national plan aims to change the way drugs are prescribed

March 6, 2013Health
CDC's "Resistance Nightmare:" A View from the Trenches: Great posts have been written about the “end of antibiotics” and superbugs in a variety of flavors.Yesterday, the CDC⁠ issued an alarming warning about Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, aka CRE...; Judy Stone

October 2, 2008Health
Warning: If antibiotics won't work, don't take them: Government disease trackers alarmed by the rise of "superbugs" resistant to antibiotics are urging consumers to stop using the drugs to treat ailments (read: viruses) that won't respond to them...; Jordan Lite

August 10, 2010Health
Drug-resistant staph infections on the decline in U.S. hospitals: The bacterial scourge methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause life-threatening infections that are difficult to beat with antibiotics.; Katherine Harmon

December 31, 2008Health
New study says preventive antibiotics may stave off deaths: Giving antibiotics to patients in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent—rather than fight—bacterial infections may reduce the number of patient deaths, Dutch scientists report today in The New England Journal of Medicine ...; Coco Ballantyne

October 15, 2019Public Health
Are Antibiotics Damaging Your Family’s Health?: The CDC calls their misuse “one of the most serious public health problems in the United States”; Eno-Obong Effiong, Fred Ogwara and Utibe Effiong | Opinion

March 22, 2010Health
French hospitals make progress in battle against MRSA through large-scale prevention and monitoring: A group of French hospitals has reduced the burden of MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) among patients by more than a third after a 15-year-long multi-prong control program, according to a new report published online March 22 in the Archives of Internal Medicine ...; Katherine Harmon

September 21, 2011Evolution
Superbugs Now Tracked Globally in Interactive Maps: Bacteria easily elude human detection—even those that can make us sick—quietly spreading from person to person, country to country. A recent global spike in bugs that are resistant to common antibiotics, however, has caused many scientists and policymakers to pay closer attention to when and where these infections are occurring.A new collection of updated interactive world maps reveal the prevalence of many of these so-called superbugs, including the prevalence of the relatively common MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ) as well as newly concerning gram-negative E...; Katherine Harmon

October 23, 2014Health
Why Ebola is a Wake Up for Infection Control: Just as the CDC’s and other experts’ thoughts on Ebola and infection control have evolved with experience, mine have taken a slight twist as well.; Judy Stone

January 14, 2009Health
Can a simple checklist prevent surgical errors?: A new study has found that hospitals could cut surgery complications by about 30 percent and resulting deaths by 40 percent if doctors and nurses follow a checklist of safety rules before, during and after performing surgery...; Coco Ballantyne

August 30, 2016Public Health
Superbug Resistant to 2 Last-Resort Antibiotics Found in U.S. for First Time: The worrisome combination has been detected before in other countries; Lindzi Wessel and STAT

December 4, 2019Public Health
The Missing Link in Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: Rapid diagnostics can flag outbreaks of “superbugs” before they spread; Evan Jones | Opinion

April 9, 2008
Bacteria That Snack on Antibiotics: A new study has turned up hundreds of bacterial strains that are not only antibiotic-resistant—they literally eat the life-saving drugs for breakfast.

September 24, 2013Health
Hospital-Based Infections Could Be Moving to Doctor’s Offices: When patients check into a hospital, they expect doctors there to fix what ails them, but one in 20 patients seeking care at hospitals contract a health care–based infection.; Dina Fine Maron

November 17, 2013Molecules to Medicine
Will Antibiotics Be There When You Need Them? Get Smart: Just in time for “Get Smart about Antibiotics Week,” I had a refreshing experience recently, working in a different rural hospital. Over that week, I didn’t see one patient with “superbugs” other than the occasional MRSA...; Judy Stone

January 27, 2017Public Health
Superbug Resistant to Last-Resort Antibiotic Arises in China: China has been using colistin to speed growth of farm animals; Helen Branswell and STAT

September 14, 2009Health
Staph makes a splash: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found at public beaches: Bathers, beware. A trip to the beach could yield more than a damaging sunburn. According to a recent study, all nine sampled beaches in Washington State contained strains of the virulent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria—or related methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococci —in the sand or water...; Katherine Harmon

October 18, 2007
Hospitals and Superbugs: Go in Sick... Get Sicker: Nearly 100,000 people die every year from bugs that they pick up in health care facilities; experts say most of these infections are preventable; Coco Ballantyne

August 27, 2013Molecules to Medicine
Where’s the Real Danger from Infection This Summer?: Naegleria fowleri is a summertime villain, scary and sensational, the “Brain-eating Amoeba.” Even the name is villainous. It is an amoeba that lives in fresh water, especially warm water, and is a cause of brain infections, almost always resulting in death...; Judy Stone

July 28, 2014Health
The Hunt for Antibiotic-Resistance Hotspots: When patients take too many unnecessary antibiotics it inches us ever closer to a world where essential drugs are no longer effective. More than two million people in the United States develop antibiotic resistant infection each year and some 23,000 of them die as a result...; Dina Fine Maron

India Tackles Superbug Menace with New Antibiotic Guidelines