11 May 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
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).
18 Apr 2012
This week's visualization takes a break from charts to tell a story via an infographic: namely, the story of the one million Indian children who die each year in the first four weeks of life. Approximately 190,000 of these neonates die from sepsis, a bacterial infection that overwhelms the bloodstream, and of these deaths, it's estimated that nearly one-third are attributable to antibiotic resistance. Download the infographic from the Tools section of our website.
6 Apr 2012
A round-up of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.Schoolchildren in Canada are learning
about antimicrobial resistance as “the new climate change.”
6 Apr 2012
This morning, we revised a visualization on carbapenem sales in
India and Pakistan, originally uploaded to our website a few weeks ago. The original
graph mistakenly included penem (faropenem) sales along
with carbapenems. Penems are a structurally related, but therapeutically
distinct class of oral drugs that is not FDA-approved and is only available in
some Asian countries (including China, India, and Japan).
