More than half of patients receive antibiotics during their hospital stay, which means hospitals play a crucial role in slowing bacterial resistance to these lifesaving drugs. Hospitals can improve their prescribing practices by reporting antibiotic use and resistance data.
More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur each year and more than 35,000 people die as a result. Please urge your representatives to strengthen funding.
Ask Congress to introduce and pass legislation to enhance FDA’s oversight of dietary supplements, specifically by requiring that manufacturers tell the agency about all products they make, including their ingredients.
The FDA announced a new draft policy to ensure that veterinarians oversee any use of medically-important antibiotics in food animals. Urge FDA to take this common-sense step now to better protect Americans from antibiotic resistance.
Please urge the U.S. secretary of commerce to protect deep-sea corals in the Gulf of Mexico.
Thank your members of Congress for co-sponsoring legislation that would provide $6.5 billion over five years for priority repairs in parks and public lands.
H.R. 3697’s shortsighted approach would undermine that progress and risk the return to days when overfishing and depleted fish populations were chronic problems. Please urge your representative to oppose H.R. 3697.
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