As stated by the authors, the risk of a future without effective antibiotics is dramatic. The rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a real problem that is currently responsible for about 1.2 [...]
“MRSA continues to be a major problem in U.S. healthcare facilities and greatly underreported”, states Jeanine Thomas, founder and national spokesperson for MRSA Survivors Network. In [...]
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing recently, Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland was asked if Ukraine has chemical or biological weapons. She replied, “Ukraine has [...]
Polymyxin E–Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Tunisia and Neighboring Countries: Are There Commonalities? Universities and hospitals across northern Africa have just published a review of [...]
Recent findings from researchers at the American Phytopathological Society have demonstrated that the bacteria responsible for Citrus Greening disease (HLB or Huanglongbing), Candidatus [...]
Trana Discovery fully supports the appeal by Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD and Pres./CEO of Biotechnology Innovation Organization [BIO] to create a new business model for drug development with [...]
The world marks AIDS Day on December 1 to highlight the work done to eliminate the epidemic. The day is also observed to extend support to those who have to live with the life-threatening [...]
A study of 87,509 elderly patients from the Veterans Administration with positive blood cultures examined the number with multi-drug resistant bacteria. The authors found that in older patients [...]
Recent U.S. hospital data from the last quarter of 2020 has shown a 34% increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from the previous year. Some states have seen shocking [...]
The CDC study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), shows substantial increases nationally in HAI and select antibiotic-resistant (AR) infections in 2020 compared to [...]
