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21 Oct 2016
Introducing our new Prize Lead, Daniel Berman
Our new Prize Lead brings experience from an international career in public health.
14 Oct 2016
Innovations in hand hygiene
For Global Handwashing Day 2016, we looked at ways in which new ideas are helping improve hand hygiene.
07 Oct 2016
Understanding drug discovery
Only around 1 in 5,000 drug candidates reaches approval and widespread use. But how does it get there?
06 Oct 2016
SWINE: The film
The filmmakers behind SWINE tell us how pig farming is helping the spread of drug resistance.
03 Oct 2016
Crowdsourcing ideas in science
We have worked hard to professionalise the practice of science, and we have been so successful that it’s rare to find science being done by non-professionals. So where will the outsider views come from?
RPS Diagnostics is a small company in Florida applying for arguably the most esteemed healthcare prize in the world, ready to tackle the biggest health challenge facing the world today: antibiotic overuse and resistance.
History was made this week as AMR was the subject of a UN High Level Meeting, only the fourth time in history for a health topic.
20 Sep 2016
Treating sore throats in pharmacies: Reducing the pressure on inappropriate antibiotic use
In the lead-up to World Pharmacists Day, we hear from the lead author of a pilot study conducted across pharmacies in England to test Boots' sore throat Test and Treat Service, which used a point–of–care diagnostic test to check for strep throat infection.
Chris Bond lost his legs and part of his arms due to a bacterial infection in 2005. Today, he is a wheelchair rugby player and Paralympic gold medalist.
Games For Better is a 48-hour Game Jam about antibiotic resistance.
NIH, BARDA and ASPR launch a $20million Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic Challenge.