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July 1, 2018The startups waging war against superbugs.
The Spokesman-Review– July 1, 2018. “‘The science is as good as anywhere else,’ said Ramanan Laxminarayan, a professor at Princeton University and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, based in Washington and New Delhi. ‘On a per-dollar basis, I think the chance of a new antibiotic discovery is as great or higher […]
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June 26, 2018Drug resistance takes devastating toll on families in India.
National Post– June 26, 2018. “Carbapenem resistance was unheard of as recently as the late 1990s. It has now become widespread in South Asia, says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy and a leading expert.”
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June 14, 2018Call to widen pneumonia vaccine cover.
The Telegraph India– June 14, 2018. “A study published last month by the Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) had estimated that the introduction of pneumococcal vaccines would cost $240 million (Rs 1,620 crore), more than double the Rs 700 crore India spent on immunization in 2014-15.”
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June 11, 2018‘Why not take a risk?’ attitude is impeding efforts to stem rise in antibiotic-resistant infections.
Minnpost– June 11, 2018. “The problem is that patients, but more surprisingly clinicians, are not fully recognizing the potential harms from antibiotic use,” said Eili Klein, one of the study’s authors and a mathematical ecologist and epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP), in a released statement. “Despite the fact that approximately 20% […]
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May 31, 2018Perception that antibiotics are harmless is widespread.
EurekAlert– May 31, 2018. “The problem is that patients, but more surprisingly clinicians, are not fully recognizing the potential harms from antibiotic use”, said Dr. Klein of CDDEP. “Despite the fact that approximately 20% of patients can get some sort of side effect, this does not seem to be as important a factor in decision-making […]
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May 31, 2018Perception that antibiotics are harmless is widespread
A study of decision-making about the use of antibiotics in medicine has found that the mistaken belief that antibiotics are harmless is widespread, especially among patients.
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May 23, 2018Climate change: a possible cause behind the Nipah outbreak
The Quint– May 23, 2018. ‘We forget that we are all interlinked. Most diseases first emerge in animals. It is only after they’ve gone through them that they travel to humans. Ebola first emerged in Gorillas. Unless we learn from our mistakes, we stop destroying their habitat, these viruses will keep emerging.’ -Prof Ramanan Laxminarayan, […]
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May 14, 2018Treatment for MRSA no longer more costly than for susceptible Staph aureus infections
Infections caused by one of the most common drug resistant bacteria in the US, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, are no more expensive to treat than the methicillin-susceptible version of the same bacteria.
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May 10, 2018The catch-22 of mass-prescribing antibiotics.
Wired– May 10, 2018. “I am not saying this kind of use has no place at all; it may have a role for some populations and for some period of time,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, the founder of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy and a prominent researcher into developing-world antibiotic policy. “But we have […]
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