by TGAR Foundation | Jun 22, 2023 | General
Social media platforms have great potential for research on public health initiatives, as they have a wide reach and accessibility: 4.9 billion users and 227 million new users per year. Furthermore, social media platforms contain a diverse population sample: people...
by TGAR Foundation | Jun 19, 2023 | General
AMR is the ability of microbes to defeat the medicines designed to kill them. They multiply and grow at presumably fatal concentrations of antimicrobials. It can affect parasites, fungi and viruses, but it is especially known in the field of antibiotic resistance,...
by TGAR Foundation | Apr 25, 2023 | General
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic...
by TGAR Foundation | Mar 28, 2023 | General
World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of a ‘silent pandemic’ due to a lack of antibiotic development The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning of a “silent pandemic” of antimicrobial resistance from infections caused by deadly...
by TGAR Foundation | Mar 3, 2023 | General
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...
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...
