World antibiotic awareness week: report and initiatives
Amcli: 390.000 victims in Europe in 2050. European House-Ambrosetti: costs up to 1.8 billion over 30 years. Italy is among the European countries with the highest levels of antibiotic resistance. According to estimates by European House-Ambrosetti, contained in the XIII…
World Antibiotic Awareness Week – 12-18 November, 2018
Each November, World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) aims to increase global awareness of antibiotic resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. Since…
Biovitae® adheres to the World Antibiotic Awareness Week
Biovitae adheres to the World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW-World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 12-18 November, 2018), organized by the World Health Organization. The initiative has among its objectives to raise awareness on the issue of antibiotic resistance, as well as to…
BIOVITAE® in the International database of the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN)
The BIOVITAE® technology has now its own universal code and is recognized as a microbicide technology by all Healthcare Organizations and Health Ministries across the world. The Global Medical Devices Nomenclature is updated by the GMDN Agency, whose nomenclatures are used in the European…
‘Antibiotic apocalypse’: doctors sound alarm over drug resistance
The terrifying prospect that even routine operations will be impossible to perform has been raised by experts alarmed by the rise of drug-resistant genes Scientists attending a recent meeting of the American Society for Microbiology reported they had uncovered a…
The true cost of antibiotic resistance in Britain and around the world
When Kirsten Lavine went into hospital three years ago, it was for a routine procedure. She was having a hysteroscopy, where doctors feed a thin telescope into the womb to check for abnormalities. Thousands are performed across the country every…
Antibiotico-resistenza, il Piano di contrasto del ministero della Salute: entro il 2020 ridurre l’uso del 10%
Sorveglianza, prevenzione e controllo delle infezioni da microrganismi resistenti , comprese quelle correlate all’assistenza sanitaria, uso appropriato e sorveglianza del consumo di antibiotici, con una riduzione dell’impiego entro il 2020 superiore al 10% in ambito territoriale e oltre il 5%…
La resistenza agli antibiotici provocherà 10 milioni di morti nel mondo entro il 2050. E l’Italia è tra i Paesi messi peggio
Ogni anno in Europa circa 25.000 persone muoiono per avercontratto infezioni provocate da batteri resistenti agli antibiotici. Nel 2014 il governo inglese ha affidato all’economista O’Neill il compito di compilare un report per tracciare un quadro del problema. Ne è…