Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine, essential for treating everything from routine skin infections to strep throat, and for protecting vulnerable patients receiving chemotherapy or being treated in intensive care units.
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Report
Antibiotic Use in Outpatient Settings
Health experts create national targets to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions
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Issue Brief
Animal Antibiotic Use Requires Drug Label Refinements
Analysis shows more than 1 in 3 labels will not fully meet judicious use standards after implementation of FDA policy
Our Work
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FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Antibiotic Policies under the GAIN Act
The emergence of alarming and unusual types of resistant bacteria around the world underscores the need for new antibiotics to treat patients with serious and life-threatening infections. Yet there are too few drugs in development to meet anticipated patient needs, and many major pharmaceutical companies have abandoned efforts to develop new antibiotics. Read More
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FDA Seeks More Funding to Track Resistant Bacteria
The Food and Drug Administration recently asked Congress for an additional $8 million for its Center for Veterinary Medicine’s Animal Drugs and Feeds Program, including money to enhance the country’s only public health surveillance system for assessing antibiotic resistance in intestinal bacteria found in people, retail meats, and food animals. Read More
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How CDC Is Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Anne Schuchat, M.D., is principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She spoke at length with Pew about the threat of antibiotic resistance and what CDC is doing to combat it. Read More
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