Maryn McKenna
We haven’t approved a new type of antibiotic in nearly 40 years — and bacteria are taking advantage of this blind spot
Antimicrobials cost as much to develop as other drugs, but don’t earn the same returns. Congress could give drugmakers a ...
Why the US won’t spot the next big COVID wave until it’s too late
Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, ...
Will coffee go extinct? Deadly fungus threatens one of the world’s favorite beverages
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, talking about a plant disease might seem frivolous. But around the world, 100 ...
Why is it so difficult to battle antibiotic resistance?
Before COVID-19, antibiotic resistance was estimated to kill at least 700,000 people each year worldwide. That number could now climb ...
Accidental side effect: COVID-19 pandemic could give polio ‘a fresh start’
The world’s total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is closing in on 5 million. But an accidental side effect of ...
Lessons learned from the past: Why rushing a coronavirus vaccine could be dangerous
Annual flu shots don’t need to go through clinical trials every time they are adjusted for each year’s flu strain, ...
Plan to battle citrus greening disease in Florida with antibiotics sparks backlash from activists, some scientists
In the next month or so, orange trees across Florida will erupt in white blossoms, signalling the start of another ...
‘More infectious than Ebola’: Dangerous superbug yeast troubles researchers
[A] yeast, a new variety of an organism so common that it’s used as one of the basic tools of ...
Ranch fights to preserve rare pre-hybrid US chickens and their unique genetics
Every bird on [Good Shepherd Ranch] was hatched there, from an egg that was laid there, from parents that were ...
Instead of GMO citrus greening solution, Florida officials seek permission to spray antibiotics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Florida’s Department of Agriculture ...
Video series takes consumers inside large scale livestock, produce farms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As 2016 approached, two ...
Antibiotic resistance genes identified in growing list of countries
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. More news is emerging ...
International regulations urged for antibiotic use in livestock
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The international community needs ...
Concern rising over rainforest disease ‘neglected’ by drug companies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I told a story ...
Regulatory oversight may have allowed deadly pig virus into US in 2013
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How diseases cross borders ...
New MERS outbreak in Saudi Arabia causing concern ahead of Hajj pilgrimage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When last we checked ...
CDC requests funding from Congress to fight antibiotic resistance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that illnesses and deaths from antibiotic resistance will rise in the U.S. unless ...
Gut dwelling hospital infection linked to supermarket meats
One of the most common and troubling infections that occur in healthcare may come from an unexpected source, according to ...
Measles virus’s high transmissibility further stresses importance of vaccination
In its bulletin the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC said that a toddler traveling from India gave a Minneapolis man measles when the ...
Are we nearing the end of antibiotics?
The antibiotic era isn’t actually very old. It begins, depending on how picky you are, with Alexander Fleming’s accidental recognition of ...
MERS arrival in yet another country raises concerns about global preparedness
A respiratory virus that originates in the Middle East and has been hopscotching the globe for three years has landed in ...
White House tackles antibiotic resistance at first ever summit
Representatives of more than 150 health care organizations, medical schools, pharmaceutical companies federal health agencies and food-production interests met at ...
Drop in antibiotic profitability partially responsible for rise of resistance
Within the slow-brewing crisis of antibiotic resistance—which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention kills 23,000 Americans each ...
Antibiotic use in livestock may pose health threat to farm workers
A new study by the researcher who has done the most to pin down the presence of “pig MRSA” in the United States ...
Six decades ago, US celebrated first successful polio vaccine
Sixty years ago, at about the time you’re reading this, church bells began to ring across the United States. Cars honked ...
Can ancient Anglo-Saxon remedy cure MRSA infection?
A plant-based ointment recipe pulled from a 1,000-year-old manuscript is spiking excitement about what historical knowledge and traditional remedies can do to ...
Ancient wheat DNA found in Britain provides clues to history of agriculture
Some of us spend so much time thinking about not eating wheat, particularly its key protein, gluten, that it can be difficult ...
Is the antibiotics miracle about to end–And to what end?
Predictions that we might sacrifice the antibiotic miracle have been around almost as long as the drugs themselves. Penicillin was ...
