16 May 2012
A glimmer of hope amid pronouncements that we are on a path to a "post-antibiotic era:" in some countries, antibiotic prescribing is actually going down. We've known since the advent of antibiotics that exposure to the drugs drives the development of resistance in bacteria. We also know that many antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate -
11 May 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
7 May 2012
The Spring 2012 edition of Emory's Public Health Magazine features an article on Keith Klugman and the first-ever drug resistance index (DRI). Much like a stock market or consumer price index, the DRI aggregates and weights available data to produce a single measure that can be examined over time - in this case the index represents the burden of resistance in a hospital or geographical area. Why create this
1 May 2012
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
(SGRH), one of New Delhi’s top medical facilities, is now using a Drug Resistance Index (DRI) to summarize
trends in the effectiveness of antibiotics prescribed in the hospital. An index
for four common infections treated between 2009 and 2011 is featured in SGRH’s
April microbiological newsletter
(page 7).
27 Apr 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
A study in Nature finds that anti-inflammatories can lessen the antibiotic dose needed to clear infections in mice.
