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News break: Developing-world drug resistance

Posted by Maryn McKenna on June 15, 2010
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The Center for Global Development, a DC think-tank, is releasing what looks like a thoughtful report aimed at refocusing policy debates over drug resistance toward the epidemic’s global impact, with particular attention to the the developing world.

Bad news: From MRSA to LRSA

Posted by Maryn McKenna on June 15, 2010
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Via the Journal of the American Medical Association, a report from Spain: the first recorded outbreak, in a Madrid hospital, of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to linezolid (Zyvox), one of only a few drugs still available to treat very serious infections of drug-resistant staph, MRSA. This is bad news. Background: The M in MRSA stands for…

News break: House hearing Wednesday on the antibiotic pipeline

Posted by Maryn McKenna on June 8, 2010
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The Subcommittee on Health of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives has announced a hearing for Wednesday: “Promoting the Development of Antibiotics and Ensuring Judicious Use in Humans.” The witness line-up is: