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WHO publishes first AMR surveillance report

The World Health Organization has published its first Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS) report.…

Target to eradicate cholera by 2030 is ambitious

This letter is in response to ‘Boost in availability of oral cholera vaccines is a potential game changer in the global fight against cholera’ in the November 2017 issue of The Pharmaceutical Journal. The author has weighted the article towards the production of a more transportabl…

2017: Pharmacy’s roller-coaster year

It has been an unsettling 12 months for pharmacy and as 2017 draws to a close there are still a number of unresolved issues hanging over the New Year.…

Community pharmacies ideally placed to help the global fight against hepatitis C

2016 brought with it the first fall in deaths from hepatitis C in the UK in more than a decade, likely the result of increased treatment with new direct acting antiviral drugs…

Boost in availability of oral cholera vaccines is a potential game changer in global fight against cholera

Julie Hall from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies discusses a new global health plan to cut cholera deaths by 90% and to eliminate the disease by 2030.…

Wellcome Trust launches global project to map antibiotic resistance

A global project to help track and document diseases associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been launched, according to UK health charity the Wellcome Trust.…

Chief medical officer warns antibiotic resistance could signal ‘end of modern medicine’

England’s chief medical officer Sally Davies has warned that if antibiotics lose their effectiveness it would spell “the end of modern medicine”.…

WHO announces plan to slash cholera cases by 90%

Health officials from around the world have pledged to reduce cholera deaths by 90% by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.…

AMR: time is running out, we need action now

AMR is one of the biggest threats to modern medicine and the global economy, yet millions of people are unaware of its potentially catastrophic implications.…

AMR and diagnostics: pointing the way to better infection control

Antimicrobial resistance — the ability of previously sensitive microorganisms to resist the effects of an antimicrobial agent — is a growing problem. The World Health Organization has warned that we could be moving into a post-antibiotic era where even minor injuries could lead…