Heather Peatman is a hardworking photographer and farmer, but she spends a good portion of her days thinking about something entirely different from editing pictures or feeding her animals: how she can get a speedy internet connection.
Austin Vivolo doesn’t recall what grade he was in when his parents stopped going to church, only that he and his older brother were delighted. “We thought, ‘Oh, we don’t have to go to that boring place anymore where we always have to be quiet.’”
Americans contract more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections every year—and at least 35,000 die.
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Pew’s antibiotic resistance project seeks to spur creation of new antibiotics by removing economic obstacles that impede discovery and development and to ensure that antibiotics are prescribed appropriately.
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