Antibiotic Resistance

• Canada introduces new guidelines to tackle antimicrobial resistance

  In response to the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance, Canada announced the distribution of national prescribing guidelines to optimize the use of antibiotics.

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  May 17, 2024
  
• Visits suspended at N.B. hospital unit due to antibiotic-resistant infection

  All visits are temporarily suspended for the internal medicine and telemetry unit at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, N.B. amid an outbreak of VRE.

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  Nov 30, 2022
  
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• ‘Silent pandemic’: Antimicrobial resistance a growing threat to Canadians, experts say

  A rising threat of superbugs, caused by antimicrobial resistance, has become a 'silent pandemic' contributing to thousands of deaths every year in Canada, experts say.

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  Nov 30, 2022
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• Joint research on soil bacteria via McMaster University shows potential for anti-malaria drug

  A study from the DeGroote Institute and University of Hamburg may have stumbled on a new antimalarial compound.

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  Nov 1, 2021
• Manitoba doctors increasingly prescribing antibiotics inappropriately, study finds

  The over-prescription of antibiotics was more common among older doctors and doctors who saw more patients on a daily basis, the study found.

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  Oct 19, 2021
• How antibiotic resistance has an impact on future diseases

  Ten million deaths per year by 2050 related to antimicrobial resistance — that’s what a large British study, conducted in 2014, predicts if the current trend continues.

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  Jan 25, 2021
• Prescribing babies fewer antibiotics has led to lower asthma rates: B.C. study

  Childhood asthma rates have fallen as doctors prescribe infants fewer unnecessary antibiotics, Canadian researchers have found.

  Jun 19, 2020
• As superbugs grow stronger, Nova Scotia health experts encourage judicious use of antibiotics

  As superbugs grow in strength and number, Nova Scotia health experts are encouraging the public to take a second look at their use of antibiotics.

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  Nov 20, 2019
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• How superbugs and antibiotic resistance will make common medical procedures harder

  Giving patients antibiotics is standard care before many operations and medical procedures, experts say. So what happens if they no longer work as well?

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  Nov 17, 2019
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• Pakistan begins vaccinating against ‘superbug’ typhoid that has infected 11,000

  An outbreak of drug-resistant typhoid in Pakistan has infected around 11,000 people since 2016.

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  Nov 15, 2019