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.
22 Feb 2012
Our newest data visualization looks at the changing prevalence of two drug-resistant bacteria in a hospital in Bach Mai, Vietnam.
8 Feb 2012
Two weeks ago we inaugurated a new graphic series for global health data. Charts and other visualizations will be posted every other week, in the Tools section of our website. This week's picture follows the last, on global trends in macrolide antibiotic sales, breaking
down these sales into
extended-spectrum and narrow-spectrum varieties.
18 Jan 2012
It was a “why didn’t I think of
that?” moment: an article called “Forgotten Antibiotics: An Inventory in
Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia,” in the January 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID).
