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Aug 10

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The economic reason this chicken producer gave up antibiotics

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For decades, almost all factory-farmed chickens were raised on antibiotics. But low doses of “maintenance” antibiotics can spur bacteria to build resistance, creating superbugs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman and science correspondent Miles O’Brien report team up to examine why one…

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Aug 09

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How industrial farming techniques can breed superbugs

By Miles O'Brien

As high-density, industrial-scale livestock farms have become fertile breeding grounds for disease, they’ve also become a major source of drug-resistant superbugs. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien and economics correspondent Paul Solman team up to report on how scientists are studying how…

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Aug 09

How a flood of antibiotics landed in your chicken

By Nsikan Akpan

In the book "Big Chicken," Maryn McKenna chronicles how humanity went from developing antibiotics to keep healthy to standing on the verge of an onslaught of unstoppable diseases.

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Aug 08

Column: The never-ending debate over finishing your antibiotics

By Fedor Kossakovski

Some health professionals are advocating for shorter antibiotics courses, going so far as to say maybe patients should stop taking antibiotics once they feel better.

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Aug 04

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Drug companies aren’t making new antibiotics. Is there an economic cure?

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As drug-resistant infections proliferate, financial barriers are preventing the pharmaceutical industry from investing in new drugs to fight off superbugs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman, in a series of reports with science correspondent Miles O'Brien, explores how researchers could be incentivized…

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Aug 03

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The financial barrier to developing antibiotics? No big payday for drug companies

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As current antibiotics begin to lose their punch, there’s an economic reality putting a damper on development. Since every use of an antibiotic drives resistance, and doctors are reluctant to use a drug until there's no alternative, why would a…

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Aug 03

Why so many companies have stopped trying to create new antibiotics

By Paul Solman

Dr. John Rex discusses the growing concerns around antibacterial resistance and why so many companies have stopped trying to create new drugs.

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Jul 16

Gonorrhea may soon become resistant to all antibiotics and untreatable

By Helen Branswell, STAT

The Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria may be developing resistance to the only two antibiotics left that can cure the sexually transmitted disease.

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Mar 22

Study finds growing use of antibiotics in livestock across globe

By Rebecca Lee

In 2010, farmers across the globe used more than 63, 000 tons of antibiotics annually, the study estimated.

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Sep 18

White House orders government plan to combat antibiotic resistance

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Signaling the seriousness of the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant germs, President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered the government to create a national plan to fight them by early 2015.

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