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Tag: Antibiotic resistance
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Nation & World
Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics linked to resistance
New Harvard Chan School study supports claims that antibiotic resistance in the U.S. is linked more closely to the widespread use of these drugs than to their heavy use among a small fraction of the population.
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Nation & World
Big data targets drug resistance
Harvard Medical School symposium examines the role of big data in fighting drug-resistant microbes.
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Nation & World
Heading off the post-antibiotic age
Antibiotic resistance has the potential to take millions of lives by 2050 if nothing is done to address the problem, Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at Harvard Business School.
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Nation & World
A new platform for discovering antibiotics
Harvard chemists have created a platform for discovering antibiotics that they hope will shorten the time and difficulty involved in measuring their effectiveness, even as the body’s resistance to current antibiotics is rising.
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Nation & World
When bacteria fight back
After the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report on the threat from drug-resistant bacteria, David Hooper, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an authority on the subject, discussed the issues during a question-and-answer session.
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Nation & World
Battling a bacterial threat
Harvard physicians and scientists are joining forces to tackle one of the most troubling developments on the medical landscape: the rise of drug-resistant bacteria.
