Tag: antibiotics
Nanoplastics in the human body are weakening antibiotic effectiveness, heightening resistance...
New research reveals how nanoplastics compromise antibiotic effectiveness, raising alarm over plastic pollution’s role in fueling global antibiotic resistance.
New report reveals rise in antimicrobial use in animals
A possible contribution to rising rates of AMR is the overuse of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals.
‘Narratives of delay’: How the animal pharma industry resists moves to...
A DeSmog review of hundreds of documents identifies eight arguments fielded by the industrial farming lobby to allay concerns over livestock drugs.
Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken...
Similar to the other major crisis of our era – climate change – the antibiotic crisis poses a fundamental threat to human wellbeing around the world.
If we want antibiotics to work, consumers have to put big...
Our current factory farming model is broken – environmentally, medically and morally.
McDonald’s announces new antibiotic use reduction policy in beef, a first-of-its-kind
"With Washington asleep at the wheel on this rising health threat, leadership in the marketplace is essential."
Critical antibiotics still used on US farm animals despite superbug crisis
The FDA is planning to release data on pharmaceutical sales for animal antibiotics for 2017 this December, which will give more indication as to how well the new regulations are working.
Superbug risk rises as Big Pharma fails to disclose antibiotic waste...
This risks creating more superbugs.
Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food
As with improper and excessive pesticide use, the abuse of antibiotics is mainly of concern when it affects national reputations abroad and related export earnings.
Revealed: How Dirty Production of NHS Drugs Helps Create Superbugs
Active ingredients used in antibiotics get into the local soil and water systems, leading to bacteria in the environment becoming resistant to the drugs.
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Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals
An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.
Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in US
Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.
The rise of AI warfare: How autonomous weapons and cognitive warfare are reshaping global...
The future of warfare may be decided by AI, but will humans have a role to play?
Why the right really hates the Postal Service
It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism.
Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US overdose deaths
Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.