Where are the next generation of antibiotics going to come from? Clare Sansom looks at the pipeline The threat of antibiotic resistance is big news. Few people will have failed to notice headlines in recent years warning of a potential ‘antibiotic apocalypse’ that...
Urinary tract infections are increasingly becoming resistant to first-line antibiotics, and this may be a warning for our ability to treat other microbial infections About half of women and more than one in 10 men will get a urinary tract infection (UTI) in their...
Terkko Health Hub and TGAR Foundation signed an MOU to create awareness about AMR and the Patient Platform for the Nordic Finnish Student Campus. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Helsinki; Finland (29 Nov, 2022): Do Company OY-Terkko Health Hub and The Global Antibiotic...
A laboratory study unravels ways non-antibiotic drugs can contribute to drug resistance. The emergence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics is often attributed to the overuse of antibiotics in people and livestock. But researchers have homed...
World Health Organization identifies priority pathogens of greatest threat to public health as diseases grow resistant to antifungal treatments Health-threatening fungi are spreading in geographic range due to climate change, while some fungal diseases spiked during...
Windi Muziasari PhD. Resistomap CEO. While antibiotic resistance is associated with 4,95 million deaths in 2019 and it will cost the global economy approximately 1-6% of the global GDP by 2050, it is also one of the six emerging environmental pollutants of concern...
Björn Rönnerstrand Dr. in political science and researcher at the SOM Institute, University Gothenborg Sweden. Data from Transparency International show that corruption (defined as “abuse of entrusted power for private gain”) is widespread globally. Moreover,...
Pekka Honkanen Prof. em. MD. Professor Emiritus of Oulu University and still practizing MD in Terveystalo Antimicrobial stewardship can be passive or active. Passive intervention consists of evidence-based guidelines, education of clinical staff, development of...
Ville Kainu MD. PhD. Global Medical Affairs Director, Anti-Infectives Pfizer How to incentivize research and development A few years ago, the WHO developed a priority list of bacteria against which new antibiotics are needed, ranging from critical to medium priority....
Eero Punkka Dr. Director of the Helsinki Biobank The Helsinki Biobank, founded by the Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) and Helsinki University, is the largest hospital biobank in Finland. It serves an area which comprises 40% of the Finnish population. When...
