UFS team undertakes research to test the presence of ammonium compounds used in sanitisers in the ecosystem, which lead to resistant micro-organisms in water systems
The list of medicines nurses can prescribe hasn’t changed since 1984, so they can’t dispense beyond schedule four drugs
Superbugs are fighting back and our state hospitals don’t have the right specialists or enough funding to stop more germs from becoming untreatable
Germs are outsmarting medicine faster than South Africa’s overburdened facilities can keep up with them
Study reveals how high concentrations of pharmaceutical products are ending up in False Bay’s marine environment
We are facing possibly the greatest health threat of our time: drug-resistant infections. But here’s why there’s hope the world can change course.
Poor practices in the industry lead to disease, use of antibiotics and contamination of water and soil
The overuse and abuse of antibiotics strengthens lethal, drug-resistant bacteria.
Research shows that the way doctors describe medical conditions can affect whether or not a patient demands antibiotics.
Several initiatives are under way to stop the abuse of antibiotics.
A new strain of drug-resistant bacteria has made landfall in South Africa.
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/ 9 November 2010
When medication fails, transplant surgery becomes virtually impossible.
In the near future we’re going to have to learn to live without these essential drugs once again
Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine
but, in the near future, we’re going to have to learn to live without them once again.
China on Friday launched a campaign to curb the overuse of antibiotics and slow the development of drug-resistant bacteria.
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/ 2 December 2008
China’s health ministry says six babies may have died from consuming poisoned milk – this is up from a previous confirmed death toll of three.