- January 4, 2019Dr. Eili Klein discusses medical research and the threat of ‘superbugs’.
CGTN America– January 4, 2019
Read moreRead more Read More - December 17, 2018Researchers develop global checklist for hospital antimicrobial stewardship program
CDDEP researchers led development of an evidence-based and globally applicable checklist for antimicrobial stewardship programs.
Read moreRead more Read More - December 12, 2018Expert spotlight: 5 questions with Ramanan Laxminarayan.
Antibiotic Resistance Action Center– December 12, 2018. “In late March, CDDEP and its colleagues published a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Global increase and geographic convergence in antibiotic consumption between 2000 and 2015, that highlights how global consumption of antibiotics is skyrocketing, further driving antibiotic resistance. We interviewed Dr. Laxminarayan to get his take on […]
Read moreRead more Read More - November 21, 2018The efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis for surgical procedures
CDDEP study finds that antibiotics have become less effective at preventing surgical site infections after colorectal surgery.
Read moreRead more Read More - November 19, 2018Antibiotic resistance: 5 simple tips to help prevent or reduce the spread of drug-resistant infections.
Times Now News– November 19, 2018. “A new report by researchers at the Centre for Disease Dynamics Economics and Policy (CDDEP) warned that antibiotic-resistant infections are growing at an alarming rate in India, killing over 58,000 children every year.”
Read moreRead more Read More - November 18, 2018Deadly superbugs kill more Indians than people from any other country, finds study.
India Times– November 18, 2018. According to the study, conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) among others, the overall mortality rate due to drug-resistant bacteria in India was 13% in 2015.
Read moreRead more Read More - November 17, 2018Effective antibiotic therapies declining.
Times of India– November 17, 2018. Ramanan Laxminarayan, founder and director of CDDEP in Washington DC, said infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria are associated with higher mortality rates compared to those caused by Gram-positive bacteria, with rates of 17.7 percent and 10.8 percent, respectively.
Read moreRead more Read More - November 16, 2018Drug resistant infections associated with higher in-hospital mortality rates in India
CDDEP study finds multi- and extensively drug resistant bacterial infections, especially Gram-negative infections, pose a significant risk to patients.
Read moreRead more Read More - November 15, 2018Study shows declining efficacy of prophylactic antibiotics to prevent SSIs following colorectal surgery.
Healio, Infectious Disease News– November 15, 2018. “There has been concern that drug resistance would make surgeries and transplants difficult to perform because of the greater risk of untreatable, drug-resistant infections,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, director and founder of the Center for Disease, Dynamics, Economics & Policy and senior research scholar at Princeton University, told Infectious Disease News.”
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