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How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance

Maryn McKenna | Wired | September 12, 2017

The study was being conducted by Dr. Stuart B. Levy, a researcher in Boston. Levy was 36 in 1974. He was the son of a family doctor from Delaware and had grown up accompanying his father on house calls and discussing cases afterward. He was a faculty member at Tufts University School of Medicine, in a part of Boston that is gentrified now but was cheap and seedy then, and he had taken a circuitous route to get there, studying first literature, then medicine, and then microbiology in Italy and France...

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Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières launch Out of Step Report showing urgent need for updated National TB Policies

Press Release | Stop TB Partnership, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) | December 2, 2015

The Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released Out of Step 2015 report, a 24-country survey of policies and practices used to guide the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). If countries are to meet Sustainable Development Goals target to End TB by 2030, aggressive efforts must start now to adopt and implement the 14 key policies and practices identified in the report, which are currently recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). In 2014 only one in four (26%) of the 480,000 people estimated to have developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) was diagnosed, with 111,000 people (23%) started on treatment and less than half of them successfully treated...

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