- January 18, 2020Bacteria tolerant of one antibiotic more likely to develop resistance.
Deccan Herald- January 18, 2020. The study, although small, reveals a major threat to the way doctors currently think about combination antibiotics, says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, DC, who was not involved in the work. “Our entire approach to antibiotics is going to have to be rethought,” […]
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- January 16, 2020Fight against antibiotic crisis stymied by lack of R&D spend.
SciDev– January 16, 2020- Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington DC, said that despite undoubted progress on AMR in terms of surveillance, awareness and action plans, “the age of privately funded antibiotic development is over unless the economics change radically”.
Read moreRead more Read More - January 15, 2020FIT WebQoof: Can giving antibiotics to chickens lead to cancer?
QuintFit– January 15, 2020. FIT reached out to Centre for Disease Dynamic, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), South Asia head, Jyoti Joshi for a comment. CDDEP has done extensive research into antibiotic resistance in poultry farming in India. Prof Joshi says research into antibiotic usage in poultry farming is at best patchy in India. But antibiotics have been […]
Read moreRead more Read More - January 10, 2020Pharmalittle: Combining antibiotics may cause resistance.
STAT-January 10, 2020. “Our entire approach to antibiotics is going to have to be rethought,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the work.
Read moreRead more Read More - January 8, 2020Meet the innovators who want to kill the chicken nugget.
OneZero– January 8, 2020. Resistant bacteria spread everywhere, through the soil, “through the sewage, through the air [and] through workers,” says Ramanan Laxminarayan, an expert in antibiotic resistance. “I don’t think we’re out of the woods.”
Read moreRead more Read More - December 29, 2019Indian neonates highly resistant to first-line antibiotics.
The Hindu, December 29, 2019. According to the Center For Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, nearly one million children die in the first four weeks of life every year in India. Of these, 190,000 deaths are caused by sepsis, a bacterial infection that overtakes the bloodstream. As many as 30% of sepsis deaths are attributed to antibiotics resistance.
Read moreRead more Read More - December 23, 2019Poor antibiotic stewardship blamed as India found to be superbug’s birthplace.
Chemistry World– December 23, 2019. The US Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy has developed a tool called the Drug Resistance Index (DRI), which maps out the efficacy of antibiotics for particular pathogens in a specific location. In a 2019 study, India was found to have the lowest DRI among 41 countries, indicating that the country […]
Read moreRead more Read More - December 17, 2019On fireworks and finding ways to address drug resistance in low- and middle-income countries
GARDP REVIVE Blog– December 17, 2019. I was recently asked if I thought behavior change around antibiotics was possible, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), which have historically had limited controls around the use of these drugs. My answer is a qualified ‘yes’. Behavior change is possible, provided it is evidence-based and with the […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 28, 2019Decoded: The never ending hunt for a cure for the common cold.
The Quint Fit– November 28, 2019. Prof Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of Centre for Disease, Dynamics, Economics and Policy, and a research scholar from Princeton University, had this to say to people who pop antibiotics to cure a viral infection. “All drugs have something called a placebo effect. The placebo effect is basically that if we belief […]
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