*Flashback Friday*

*This post originally appeared on The PediaBlog on November 16, 2017.   World Antibiotic Awareness Week     This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week. The focus of this year’s campaign, just like in years past, is to recognize the global public...

U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week

  As World Antibiotic Awareness Week comes to a close, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention addresses the global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance as an American problem, too: U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week is an annual one-week...

World Antibiotic Awareness Week

  This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week. The focus of this year’s campaign, just like in years past, is to recognize the global public health threat of antibiotic resistance — a threat, the World Health Organization reminds us, that begins at a...

This Fire’s Getting Hot

Calling “antibiotic-resistant microbes, climate change and chronic diseases ‘three slow-motion disasters’ shaping the global health landscape,” writers Scott Weathers, Sophie Hermanns, and Mark Bittman take on a major threat to public health...

Antibiotics: Only When Needed

  One of the most common reasons medical providers prescribe antibiotics to patients is for the diagnosis of sinusitis. Yesterday on The PediaBlog, we defined sinusitis as inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, and looked at its four main causes: Acute viral...