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G20 health ministers agree to tackle antibiotics resistance

Reuters May 21, 2017

BERLIN: Health ministers of the G20 leading economies, meeting for the first time on Saturday, agreed to work together to tackle issues such as a growing resistance to antibiotics and to start implementing national action plans by the end…

UN wants new drugs against twelve supergerms

AFP Feb 28, 2017

PARIS: The UN's health agency urged governments, scientists and pharma companies Monday to create new drugs to tackle 12 antibiotics-resistant supergerms threatening an explosion of incurable disease. For the first time, the World Health…

US woman dies of infection resistant to all 26 available antibiotics

AFP Jan 14, 2017

MIAMI: A US woman has died from an infection that was resistant to all 26 available antibiotics, health officials said this week, raising new concerns about the rise of dangerous superbugs. The woman, who was in her 70s, died in Nevada…

UN sets its sights on drug-resistant superbugs

AFP Sep 20, 2016

The meeting will bring together heads of government and senior health officials on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly -- a forum for global crises where such health issues rarely figure on the agenda. Under a draft…

Blood test may help prevent overuse of antibiotics

AFP Jul 7, 2016

MIAMI: An inexpensive blood test could one day tell doctors whether an infection is caused by a virus or a bacteria, and help prevent unwarranted prescribing of antibiotics, researchers said Wednesday.

U.S. sees first case of bacteria resistant to all antibiotics

Reuters May 27, 2016

U.S. health officials on Thursday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and expressed grave concern that the superbug could pose serious danger for routine infections if it…

KFC faces pressure after McDonald's says no antibiotics in chicken

Zohaib Kazmi Mar 12, 2015

LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO: KFC, the world's largest chain of fried chicken restaurants, may face pressure from consumer and environmental groups to change how its poultry are raised after McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) said it would switch to chicken…

McDonald's to cut back on chicken fed with antibiotics

Anees Hanif Mar 5, 2015

WASHINGTON: Fast-food giant McDonald's announced Wednesday it would stop serving chicken raised with antibiotics that are important to human health, as worries grow over resistance to crucial drugs.

New approach sees breakthrough in antibiotics research

Zohaib Kazmi Jan 7, 2015

PARIS: Scientists using a revolutionary approach have devised an antibiotic that may offset the mounting problem of drug resistance for decades, they said on Wednesday.

Antibiotics resistance could kill 10m a year by 2050

Zohaib Kazmi Dec 15, 2014

LONDON: A British government-commissioned review has found that resistance to antibiotics could account for 10 million deaths a year and hit global gross domestic product by 2.0 to 3.5 percent by 2050.