Searched for
SUPERBUG CRISIS
Do you really need that antibiotic?Swallowing an antibiotic is like carpet-bombing the trillions of microorganisms that live in the gut, killing not just the bad but the good...
26 Dec, 2023, 12.32 AM IST
Antibiotics for Covid cases worsen India’s superbug crisisDoctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand — often antibiotics tha...
26 May, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
Most healthy Indians resistant to common antibiotics: StudyInappropriate use of antibiotics is the biggest cause of drug resistance in humans.
05 Jun, 2019, 10.47 AM IST
Do you often take antibiotics, even without a prescription? It could turn minor infections into a major health concernStudies have shown that around 50-60% of antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary.
26 Feb, 2019, 10.33 AM IST
Antibiotic use in poultry sector rampant: CSECSE yesterday slammed the All India Poultry Development and Services Private Limited for its advertisement and said it was "complete misrep...
28 Feb, 2018, 12.42 PM IST
Are Indian pharma firms breeding superbugs, and should it scare us all?One study of a particular common pathogen in an Indian hospital found that about seven per cent of the specimens were resistant to even the...
06 Nov, 2016, 05.09 PM IST
New incentives needed to develop antibiotics to fight superbugsAmerican military researchers on Thursday announced the first U.S. case of a patient with an infection found to be resistant to the antibio...
28 May, 2016, 12.57 PM IST
A newly-discovered antibiotic-resistant gene opens new front in the war against superbugsFirst identified in China last November, the gene has since been discovered in livestock, water, meat and vegetables for human consumption ...
11 Apr, 2016, 09.21 AM IST