by TGAR Foundation | Feb 7, 2023 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Jan 30, 2023 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Jan 25, 2023 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Oct 26, 2022 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Sep 7, 2022 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Aug 16, 2022 | General
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,...
by TGAR Foundation | Aug 10, 2022 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Jun 30, 2022 | General
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....
by TGAR Foundation | Jun 9, 2022 | General
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...
by TGAR Foundation | Jun 7, 2022 | General
Päivi Sillanaukee highlights the multidimensional character of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). She mentions two key aspects that are relevant in curbing the unnecessary use of antibiotics: the role of prevention and the role of basic science and research on AMR....
