<p>If current consumption patterns and waste management practices do not improve, by 2050 there will be about 12 billion tons of plastic litter in land flls and the natural environment warns this new UN report released on June 5, World Environment Day 2018. It also provides a road map to reduce single-use plastics.</p>
<p>The new report from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released yesterday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as the major killers in India. Revealing the links of air pollution with mental diseases, it stated that air pollution is responsible for 30 per cent of premature deaths in India while every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs.</p>
Hospitals in India are generally lackadaisical in following stringent patient safety and infection-control standards. AN epidemiological study on the emergence of new antibiotic resistance mechanism in bacteria in India, Pakistan and the United Kingdom was recently published in Lancet, the medical journal.
<p>To determine trends, mortality rates, and costs of antimicrobial resistance in invasive bacterial infections in hospitalized children, we analyzed data from Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap,
<p>Due to scientific, public and political concern regarding antimicrobial resistance (AMR), several EU countries have already taken steps to reduce antimicrobial (AM) usage in production animal medicine,
India's leading brands of honey contain high levels of antibiotics.
Caption:Antibiotics fed to bees for commercial purposes are dangerous to consumers, says a new study. File photo That spoonful of
CSE finds high levels of antibiotics in leading brands of honey sold in Delhi, points to double standards in regulations as foreign brands sold in India also have contamination.
New Delhi: There has been a six-fold increase in the number of antibiotics being popped by Indians. This includes the retail sale of carbapenems — powerful class IV antibiotics, typically used as a “last
Emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the animal reservoir forms a risk for human health. The use of antimicrobials in animals is the major cause of development of AMR in bacteria in animals.
Inappropriate drug use by humans has made bacteria resistant to antibiotics
A study funded by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and published in The Lancet on Thursday — that shows a 43 per cent reduction in mortality among babies suffering from bacterial sepsis when administered
Since in-feed antibiotics (IFAs) are being taken out of broiler diets around the world, beginning in Sweden in the year 1986, the search for alternatives to replace IFAs has gained increasing interest
The arsenal of antibiotics strong enough to squelch nasty bacteria is rapidly dwindling worldwide, which makes worried infectious-disease doctors more intent than ever that the drugs be deployed only
Scientists have found a new weapon in the fight against drug-resistant hospital superbugs: a new class of antibiotic called platensimycin. If it passes the required clinical trials, it will be only
<p>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is making the clinical management of infections such as gonorrhoea increasingly difficult worldwide. In between the discovery of penicillin and the emergence of multidrug
Antibiotic resistance has long been an important human health problem. But now it is also showing up in a small but growing number of pets in the United States, Canada and Europe, scientists and
One of India's most popularly prescribed antibiotics has been found to give rise to potentially life-threatening side-effects in the elderly. The drug, Gatifloxacin, belonging to a class of
The government is putting in place safety standards for honey after it has been found that lots, even those sold by top brands, had traces of antibiotics and pesticides in them. The Food And Safety
Drug-resistant bacteria are taking hold in hospitals and in the community, adding urgency to the need for new antibiotics and better infection-control measures, said scientists meeting here. Among
