Tag: AMR
BD appoints Pavan Mocherla as new MD for India & South...
With more than 25 years of experience across various industries, Pavan has held multiple positions and managed several projects in both emerging and developed markets...............
PPP to combat antimicrobial resistance in India
The ICMR and pharma major, Pfizer are in the process of instituting a ‘Centre to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance’ in New Delhi, as part of the MoU signed recently. This project will help address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in India.............
Are we heading towards a post antibiotic world?
The antimicrobial resistance is fast spreading like a wild fire with no easy solutions except that we recognize it as a serious threat with alarming consequences and work towards ensuring drastic preventive measures............
Four research teams working on AMR win ‘Discovery Award Grants’
These research teams whose names were announced recently by the Longitude Prize and BIRAC have been awarded seed funding to develop rapid point-of-care tests to prevent misuse of antibiotics.............
BioVoice eMag November 2017 Issue-6 Volume-2
BioVoice eMag November 2017 Issue-6 Volume-2:
In this issue of the BioVoice magazine, the ‘Cover Story’ focuses on the serious issue of anti-microbial resistance that is reaching...
India needs to do more to tackle rising sale of unapproved...
The correspondence published in The Lancet Global Health highlights serious hurdles for controlling antimicrobial resistance in the country............
Experts suggest drastic changes in animal farming practice & regulations to...
A new important study by the CDDEP highlights the projected impacts of a global strategy to reduce antibiotic consumption in food animal production..................
Workshop to discuss drug development against antimicrobial resistant TB
Public Health England (PHE) and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) have invited applicants to collaborate in a UK-India workshop at Bengaluru in December 2017...........
Punjab’s antibiotic resistant poultry farms have set alarm bells ringing for...
The first of its kind study by the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy warns of potentially disastrous consequences to human health due to use of growth-promoting antibiotics in animal farming..........
South-East Asia health ministers meet in Colombo next week
Ahead of the Sixty-ninth WHO Regional Committee meeting, the health ministers of the 11 member countries of WHO.....