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Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt

December 25, 2019December 26, 2019ANDREW JACOBSComments Off on Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt

First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs.

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New TB Vaccine Could Save Millions of Lives, Study Suggests

October 29, 2019October 29, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on New TB Vaccine Could Save Millions of Lives, Study Suggests

There are 10 million new cases each year of tuberculosis, now the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. Even a partly effective vaccine could help turn the tide.

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A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It?

September 24, 2019APOORVA MANDAVILLIComments Off on A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It?

Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.”

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Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

August 14, 2019August 15, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

Once, a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant TB meant quick death. A three-drug regimen cures most patients in just months.

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Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

August 6, 2019August 7, 2019Roni Caryn RabinComments Off on Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market.

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Breast Milk Is Teeming With Bacteria — That’s Good for the Baby

June 12, 2019June 13, 2019APOORVA MANDAVILLIComments Off on Breast Milk Is Teeming With Bacteria — That’s Good for the Baby

Breast-fed milk may nourish a baby’s microbiome in ways that bottled breast milk can’t.

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U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

April 29, 2019April 30, 2019ANDREW JACOBSComments Off on U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

A new report says the overuse of antimicrobial drugs in humans, animals and plants is fueling resistant pathogens that could kill 10 million people annually by 2050.

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Times Insider: Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About

April 8, 2019MATT RICHTELComments Off on Times Insider: Candida Auris: The Fungus Nobody Wants to Talk About

The medical community is usually eager to discuss public health issues. But the rise in drug-resistant microbes is cloaked in chronic secrecy.

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deadly germs, Lost cures: In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections

April 7, 2019April 8, 2019ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTELComments Off on deadly germs, Lost cures: In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections

Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.

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As Venezuela’s Politicians Fight Over Aid, Patients Die Without It

February 22, 2019February 22, 2019ANATOLY KURMANAEV and ISAYEN HERRERAComments Off on As Venezuela’s Politicians Fight Over Aid, Patients Die Without It

The opposition has vowed to deliver food and medication, but the president has refused to allow it. Patients whose lives depend on aid fear the political standoff is obscuring their desperate crisis.

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