- May 20, 2019India & Candida Auris: The deadly infection breeding in hospitals.
The Quint Fit-May 20, 2019. “FIT spoke to three experts, Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) in Washington, D.C., Dr. Isabel Frost, fellow at CDDEP, and Dr Sumit Ray, Chairperson, Critical Care Medicine, to understand the peculiar problem that it creates for a country like […]
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- May 6, 2019Healthcare is still unaffordable.
Deccan Herald– May 6, 2019. “A recent report by the US-based Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) has made a shocking revelation. Terminally ill patients suffering from treatable diseases in India have no access to life saving drugs or even to doctors who know how to administer them. “Lack of access to antibiotics […]
Read moreRead more Read More - May 5, 20191 million species face extinction: how it impacts human health.
The Quint Fit– May 5, 2019. “Speaking to FIT, Prof Ramanan Laxminarayan of Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) had said: 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 […]
Read moreRead more Read More - May 3, 2019How to save $45 billion on health care costs each year.
Scientific American– May 3, 2019. “Each time an antibiotic is misused and a new strain of bacteria evolves with an immunity to that antibiotic, scientists must develop a different antibiotic to treat the new infection caused by the new bacteria. Then they must distribute the newly developed antibiotic to hospitals, by which time patients could have gotten […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 29, 2019Antibiotic resistance is now as big a threat as climate change.
The Quint Fit– April 29, 2019. “As the recent report by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy highlights, the majority of the world’s annual 5.7 million antibiotic-treatable deaths occur in LMICs, where the mortality burden from treatable bacterial infections far exceeds the estimated annual 700,000 deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections.”
Read moreRead more Read More - April 23, 2019India doctor shortage drives rise in superbugs, report warns.
The Telegraph– April 23, 2019. “The research, published by the Centre For Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) shows there is just one doctor for every 10,189 people in the country, nowhere near the World Health Organization’s recommendation of one doctor per 1,000 inhabitants. In order to satisfy its public health requirements, India needs to hire a further […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 22, 2019One-third of overseas travelers might come back with drug resistant bacteria, research shows, but here’s why you shouldn’t worry.
Bustle– April 22, 2019. “We took antibiotics for granted. We thought that we could use them like sugar pills, that they were safe and that resistance was just something that biologists worried about that you’d never actually see in real life,’ Ramanan Laxminarayan, an economist and a senior research scholar at Princeton University, told 60 Minutes.”
Read moreRead more Read More - April 21, 2019Could antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” become a bigger killer than cancer?
60 Minutes– April 21, 2019. “Ramanan Laxminarayan is an economist and a senior research scholar at Princeton University. He’s been tracking the rise of superbugs for nearly 20 years. He says what happened to Ricci was more than just bad luck, it was the result of our misuse of antibiotics. Ramanan Laxminarayan: ‘We took antibiotics for […]
Read moreRead more Read More - April 19, 2019Drug-resistant fungi are a threat to modern medicine.
Hindustan Times– April 19, 2019. “To prevent the outbreak of deadly infections such as Candida auris, hospital infection control must be taken seriously. Unlike other fungi that rarely transmit between humans, C. auris can be passed from patient to patient in a hospital. This is because of its unusual ability to last for long periods […]
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