Drug-Resistant Superbugs: 4th Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
Using latest estimates from Washington University researchers, antibiotic-resistant infections may be responsible for more than twice the number of deaths as ov...
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What Is the Meat Industry Hiding About its Antibiotic Use?
In a series of recent front-page stories, the New York Times has explored the U.S. livestock industries’ ongoing overuse of medically important antibiotics,...
One More Worry as Kids Head Off to College: Superbugs
Choosing classes, managing stress, making friends, finding her passion—that’s a very partial list of my daughter’s worries as she starts her freshman year of...
NYT Superbug Series Underscores Meat Industry Need to Act
Overuse of our most precious medicines is killing us. And much of that overuse has been and continues to be in industrialized agriculture....
The Stealth Superbug Epidemic
New estimates are that more than162,000 people in the U.S. die each year from superbug infections—seven times higher than previous estimates....
Livestock Antibiotic Sales See Big Drop, but Remain High
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its annual report showing how much of the antibiotics important to human medicine were sold for use in...