A new quantitative and qualitative evaluation of primary school musical, The Mould that Changed the World, has shown that children who participated were able to articulate a greater understanding of AMR and the risks of antibiotic overuse.

It’s a truly terrifying moment when you come to understand that the world is losing one of its most powerful tools in healthcare: Antibiotics...

On the 24th November 2020, The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics will meet to discuss the issue of antibiotic residues in sewage and agricultural run-off and how we can determine safe thresholds to combat deadly superbugs

Draft paediatric antimicrobial prescribing guidelines are now open for public consultation.

Superbugs – microbes that cause infections that are difficult or impossible to treat — are one of the biggest threats we face. They kill someone in the world every 45 seconds. That means by the time you finish reading this article, at least five more families will have lost a loved one. But there’s hope. Across the globe, community projects are doing what they can to stop superbugs – they just need us to lend a hand...

Building on the success of its Antibiotic Action campaign (which began in 2012), the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) has today launched a global health initiative called Stop Superbugs.

Antibiotic resistant infections, or ‘superbugs’, are one of the gravest threats we face. They already cause more than 750,000 deaths every year - or around one person every 40 seconds. Yet despite the scale of the issue, recognition remains low, especially amongst the general public. In this post, Edwin Panford-Quainoo explores how scientists, academics and health professionals can do more to spread the message about drug-resistant infections.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) cause misery to millions every year, with around half of all women experiencing at least one UTI in their lifetime. Usually, they are simple to treat. Clinicians prescribe antibiotics empirically whilst awaiting the results of a urine culture. Yet the disruption to primary care caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has given rise to some troubling trends...