Carbapenem resistance emerged as a key marker of treatment limiting antimicrobial resistance. Global monitoring data showed ...

Vaccines against just 23 pathogens could reduce the number of antibiotics needed by 22% globally per year, the World Health Organization recently announced. This month, the agency published a ...

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on the rising number of drug-resistant bacterial infections.

The World Health Organization (WHO) finalized a report on combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), stressing the urgency to act. The final report—developed by the Interagency Coordination Group on ...

Dangerous infections that no longer respond to antibiotics are spreading quickly around the world, increasing by as much as 15% a year, a new report from the World Health Organization states. The ...

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is director-general of the World Health Organization. At the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Thursday, all countries approved a major new political declaration to ...

At first glance, there may seem to be little connection between a red fox killed on a highway in Italy and the global threat ...

Fourteen-year-old Isaiah dreams of one day becoming a lawyer. Sadly, his current circumstances inspire anything but hope. The Nigerian high school student was born with sickle-cell anaemia by a mother ...

Over the three decades that I have worked in animal health, I have borne witness to the mounting effects of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animals. Just like in people, while bacterial infections ...

Scientists from A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore's Lee Kong Chian ...