Sask. doctor worries about health system as Omicron numbers rise The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently reported on the growing strain that Saskatchewan hospitals are facing as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Comparatively to other provinces such as...
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis Bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as one of the leading public health threats of the 21st century. The UK Government commissioned a Review on Antimicrobial...
Superbug MRSA arose in hedgehogs long before clinical use of antibiotics. In an article recently shared by ScienceDaily, researchers have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before antibiotics were used in humans...
Science Daily recently published an article on the discovery of a class of enzyme blockers called indole carboxylates that have the potential to extend and protect the efficacy of vital “last-resort” antibiotics called carbapenems. Carbapenems are a class of...
A group of researchers at A*STAR’s (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have identified a new protein to aid in wound healing and repair, according to an article published on Medical Xpress. Complications in the...
According to a new study recently shared by Medical Xpress, antibiotic consumption rates grew by 46% between 2000 and 2018. The study, published in Lancet Planetary Health by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project, provides a comparative...
