Health matters: preventing infections and reducing antimicrobial resistance
Public Health England (PHE) - This professional resource outlines the importance of infection prevention and control and how it can contribute to reducing antimicrobial resistance.Guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 13, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Superbugs and Superdrugs 2018
Superbugs and Superdrugs 2018London, UK March 19 - 20, 2018 Further informationThe 20th Annual Superbugs and Superdrugs Conference Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, academia and the wider scientific community together with regulatory agencies and public-private partnerships gather to discuss the growing threat of antibiotic resistance and multidrug-resistant bacteria. The conference will cover strategies to support antimicrobial resistance research and development, latest scientific advancements for tackling antimicrobial resistance and the potential novel candidates and alternatives to anti-microbials. ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - November 10, 2017 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
The challenge of “ evidence based ” sore throat guidelines
CONCLUSION Although the evidence for the management of acute sore throat is easily available, national guidelines are different with regard to the choice of evidence and the interpretation for clinical practice. Also a transparent and standardized guideline development method is lacking. These findings are important in the context of appropriate antibiotic use, the problem of growing antimicrobial resistance, and costs for the community.
We assume that the word “evidence” is all inclusive. How can 9 guidelines on one subject differ significantly? The first problem occurs in selecting the evidence. Like ...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - October 23, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Dean Podcast on Antimicrobial Resistance, Engineering, and New Programs
Dean Patricia Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN, covers the significance of social media in nursing and a Twitter chat on antimicrobial resistance in her latest podcast with Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She also talks about a collaboration with students from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and new
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Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - September 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Danielle Kress Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Tags: On the Pulse antimicrobial resistance Davidson podcast Dean podcast DNP/PhD Engineering Patricia Davidson pediatric Social Media Twitter Source Type: blogs
New Leader, New Era: Five Building Blocks For A Reinvigorated World Health Organization
The World Health Assembly’s election of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve as its 9th Director-General may be the most momentous in the Organization’s 70 years for reasons far beyond electing the first African. The World Health Organization (WHO) faces a crisis in confidence following its anemic response to Ebola. It remains caught in an unvirtuous cycle: Member State loss of trust results in a paucity of funding and the continual inability to perform. This is a moment to take stock of the new Director-General’s record and vision, as well as the reforms needed to transform WHO into the 21st century institution the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 19, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Lawrence O. Gostin Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Millennium Development Goals UNAIDS World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
Toward A New Model For Promoting The Development Of Antimicrobial Drugs
As global health leaders gather in Berlin from May 19–20 for the first-ever G20 Health Ministers’ meeting, one of the main topics of discussion is expected to be how to best fight the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This reflects the growing recognition that AMR poses a significant threat to human health. An influential 2014 report by the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, commonly referred to as the O’Neill Commission, estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections currently claim 700,000 lives worldwide each year, a figure that could rise to as high as 10 million deaths per year by 2050. Estimates...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Seth Seabury and Neeraj Sood Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Population Health Antibiotics antimicrobial resistance Food and Drug Administration G20 O'Neill Commission Review on Antimicrobial Resistance Source Type: blogs
Antimicrobial Resistance: Where to from Here?
Conclusion
Newer tools capable of informing these early decisions are under development, but integrating an awareness of AMR into both hospital and GP practice is a key component of winning the fight against superbugs. Throughout the development process, discussion between clinicians and researchers will ensure that diagnostic tools are effective, and also meet the needs of frontline staff.
In the mean-time, cultivating an AMR aware mind-set is the best defence against over-prescription. Understanding and accepting the systematic, ubiquitous biases which affect our judgement of risk is particularly helpful. For example, do...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jarrad Hall Tags: Clinical Research Microbiology AMR Antimicrobial resistance ESBL Joanna Tedeschi MROs multi-resistant organisms multidrug resistant organisms (MROs) Source Type: blogs
Antimicrobial Resistance: Where to from Here?
Conclusion
Newer tools capable of informing these early decisions are under development, but integrating an awareness of AMR into both hospital and GP practice is a key component of winning the fight against superbugs. Throughout the development process, discussion between clinicians and researchers will ensure that diagnostic tools are effective, and also meet the needs of frontline staff.
In the mean-time, cultivating an AMR aware mind-set is the best defence against over-prescription. Understanding and accepting the systematic, ubiquitous biases which affect our judgement of risk is particularly helpful. For example, do...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Jarrad Hall Tags: Clinical Research Microbiology AMR Antimicrobial resistance ESBL MROs multi-resistant organisms multidrug resistant organisms (MROs) Source Type: blogs
Update from London Global Forum on Life Science Innovation
The two-day Global Forum on Life Science Innovation came to London last week, bringing together participants from industry, academia, and advocacy charities. The program’s speakers included a number of Directors of Research who set out the pressing global issues facing the life sciences sector and showcased some exciting new innovations for combating these challenges.
One theme of the meeting was the exponential growth of AMR (antimicrobial resistance), the cost of which is predicted to reach a staggering $100 trillion worldwide by 2050. Kai Stoeber, VP of Global Innovation at Shionogi of Japan, discussed the use of bi...
Source: Medgadget - May 2, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
What Three Decades Of Pandemic Threats Can Teach Us About The Future
Editor’s Note: This post reflects on a speech on pandemic preparedness Dr. Fauci gave on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC, hosted by The Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, the Harvard Global Health Institute, and Health Affairs.
One of the most important challenges facing the new Administration is preparedness for the pandemic outbreak of an infectious disease. Infectious diseases will continue to pose a significant threat to public health and the economies of countries worldwide. The U.S. government will need to continue its investment to combat these diseases whe...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Anthony S. Fauci Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Ebola HIV/AIDS NIH pandemic preparedness Zika Source Type: blogs
Performance agreement between the World Health Organization and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Department of Health (DH) - This agreement aims to ensure that the UK's investment in the World Health Organization (WHO) achieves the maximum possible impact. It outlines the areas which the UK will look to work with WHO on in 2017 including health system strengthening, TB, antimicrobial resistance and better allocation of limited resources for health.AgreementDH publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 29, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
The Framework Convention On Global Health: A Call For Leadership From The Global Health Trio
In the current issue of Health Affairs, we explore a pivotal moment of opportunity and peril in global health, while identifying the leadership challenges of “the global health trio” — the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank. Each of the challenges we pose share a common thread: poor and other marginalized populations are most vulnerable to current and emerging health risks. Maternal and child mortality, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, health harms from climate change, and mass migration — all disproportionately affect those who are poor and less educated, indig...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 12, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin Tags: Featured Global Health Policy Public Health antimicrobial resistance Ebola Source Type: blogs
Portable Antibiotic Resistance Detector Developed
Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles developed a smartphone attachment capable of identifying whether a sample of a given bacteria is resistant to a particular antibiotic. The technology may have great potential for use in areas susceptible to the spread of infectious diseases when expensive laboratory equipment is not available.
There are 96 chambers within the device, each containing a bacterial sample mixed with a dose of an antibiotic and given time to react to the medicine. An array of LEDs illuminates the samples while the phone’s camera captures images of how light passes through the sample ch...
Source: Medgadget - December 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Pathology Pediatrics Public Health Surgery Source Type: blogs
JAMA review on antimicrobial resistance
(Source: Notes from Dr. RW)
Source: Notes from Dr. RW - December 23, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: hospital medicine infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Europe's Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
The EC ' s AMR Action Plan included measures to ensure antimicrobials are used more appropriately in both humans and animals and measures to stimulate R&D of new antibiotics. One area that was not sufficiently covered was the environment. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
