Over six years, prescription of carbapenems—a class of antibiotics used to treat infections that don’t respond to the usual drugs—jumped by an alarming 37 percent. Doctors use the same ...

When U.S. physicians prescribe antibiotics, more than 60 percent of the time they choose some of the strongest types of ... adult ambulatory care visits, the prescription pattern for children ...

We’re drug-resistant microbes, immune to all but your strongest antibiotics ... companies halted antibiotic research. Your policymakers still have time to fix the market. They could offer ...

Now that the term “superbug” is firmly fixed in the cultural lexicon and mcr-1, the gene responsible for making multi-drug resistant organisms resistant to even the strongest antibiotics ...

Based on the drug class, the global antibiotics market has been segmented into: The penicillin segment dominated the global market during forecast period owing to the highest prescription rate and ...

The antibiotics market generated sales of US$42 billion ... This trend has been strongest in France and Japan, which showed declines in antibiotic usage between 2000 and 2009 of 21% and 15% ...