- January 23, 2013Multidrug-Resistant CRKP Bacteria a Growing Threat in US Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Washington, D.C. — A new study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a dangerous rise in drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria. Infections caused by these bacteria are already a threat to patient …
Read moreRead more Read More - November 16, 2012ResistanceMap And Joint Statement On Preserving Antibiotic Effectiveness
It s been a momentous week for both CDDEP and Extending the Cure. On Tuesday, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 25 other national health organizations, we issued a joint consensus statement on the need to …
Read moreRead more Read More - November 14, 2012The Affordable Medicines Facility - Malaria in the News
The Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm), an innovative financing mechanism designed to expand access to effective malaria treatments in developing countries, has made news recently due to the passionate debates surrounding its continuation. …
Read moreRead more Read More - November 13, 2012ResistanceMap Data on Use and Effectiveness of Antibiotics in the US
ResistanceMap – the online platform for visualizing antibiotic resistance from our Extending the Cure project – has now been redesigned and updated with new findings showing alarming patterns of antibiotic prescribing and resistance across US …
Read moreRead more Read More - August 1, 2012CDDEP Director Writes on the Economics of Antibiotic Resistance for the Milken Institute Review
In a cover story for this quarter's issue of the Milken Institute Review, CDDEP director Ramanan Laxminarayan examines the many market failures and misaligned economic incentives that contribute to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. The …
Read moreRead more Read More - May 7, 2012Keith Klugman on the Drug Resistance Index (DRI) for Emory Public Health Magazine
The Spring 2012 edition of Emory's Public Health Magazine features an article on Keith Klugman and the first-ever drug resistance index (DRI). Much like a stock market or consumer price index, the DRI aggregates and weights available data to …
Read moreRead more Read More - April 24, 2012Malaria Resurgence is Linked to Weakening of Malaria Control Programs
A new study in Malaria Journal surveys the literature to determine why and where resurgences in malaria occur. CDDEP's David Smith, Senior Fellow and Associate Director for Research, participated in the study, which is timed with the annual …
Read moreRead more Read More - December 9, 2011Extending the Cure Research Featured in Health Affairs GrantWatch Blog
The GrantWatch blog at Health Affairs has a new post detailing some initiatives from CDDEP's Extending the Cure project: antibiotic use visualizations on ResistanceMap and the Drug Resistance Index. An excerpt of the post is below – read it in …
Read moreRead more Read More - November 22, 2011ResistanceMap Visualizations on Antibiotic Use Prompt Reflection in U.S. Southeast
ResistanceMap's data visualizations on outpatient antibiotic consumption in the United States have been making waves in the U.S. Southeast, where per capita prescribing rates are highest. Check out this piece from ABC affiliate WATE in …
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