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Jan 8, 2009

''End misuse of antibiotics''

"While your editorial ('Delmarva travel warning,' Tuesday) made light of the dangers of driving behind trucks transporting intensively raised chickens..."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Dec 28, 2008

''We need antibiotic ban in foods''

"For two years my colleagues at the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and I poured over volumes of data on what the Food and Drug Administration calls on its Web site 'a growing threat,' ..."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
May 31, 2008

''The Worst Way of Farming''

"In the past month, two new reports have examined how farm animals are raised in this country."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
May 9, 2008

''Big Farms Can Be Bad For Your Health''

"In 1950 the United States produced about the name number of hogs as it does today, on significantly more farms, smaller farms and with many more workers."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
May 6, 2013

''Overused Antibiotics are Becoming Ineffective''

"As a nation, we need to exercise greater care with our use of antibiotics, in both humans and animals, so that these medications remain effective in treating serious bacterial infections."

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Antibiotic Innovation, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Oct 17, 2012

Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics

Following the deadly superbug outbreak in 2011, a recent report published by the NIH indicates new antibiotics could help fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. Senior Officer of Pew's Antibiotics and Innovation Project Nicole Mahoney discusses the new report and the need for a comprehensive strategy to prevent superbug outbreaks.

 

 

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Antibiotic Innovation
Oct 8, 2012

''Fighting Superbugs''

"One of the most urgent global public health problems is the increasing capability of bacteria to resist antibiotic drugs. The crisis of antimicrobial resistance is particularly acute in hospitals, where superbugs able to resist multiple drugs have spawned. More than 70 percent of the bacteria that cause hospital-related infections are already resistant to at least one type of antibacterial drug."

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Antibiotic Innovation, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Aug 27, 2012

''An Uncontrollable Outbreak''

''The menace posed by germs resistant to powerful antibiotics was all too apparent when a deadly, drug-resistant form of pneumonia bacteria struck the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health last year. It infected 17 patients and killed 6 of them. This disheartening episode shows again the importance of slowing the development of resistant strains by reducing rampant overuse of antibiotics — and of developing new, more effective antibiotics."

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Antibiotic Innovation
Aug 7, 2012

''Will Humans Lose the Battle With Microbes?''

Bacteria have become increasingly resistant to the drugs we've come to rely on. Only a concerted effort can avert a public health crisis.

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Antibiotic Innovation, Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jul 11, 2012

''Resistance to antibiotics is becoming a crisis''

In an editorial stressing the need for new antibiotics, the Washington Post cites that some bacteria have become resistant to multiple antibiotics while the pipeline of new drugs is drying up. But a promising step by Congress could give pharmaceutical companies the incentive they need.

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Antibiotic Innovation