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Britain's Top Health Official Issues Dire Warning On Antibiotic Resistance

Reuters | Kate Kelland | Posted 04.22.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Video, Britain, England, Superbugs, Mrsa, Sally Davies, Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Resistance, Healthy Living News

By Kate Kelland LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Antibiotic resistance poses a catastrophic threat to medicine and could mean patients having minor sur...

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More Data, Fewer Antibiotics Are Keys to Fighting Deadly Superbugs

Laura Rogers | Posted 04.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Farming, Congress, Bacteria, Superbugs, Animals Antibiotics, Farming Antibiotic, Animal Antibiotics, Farming Antibiotics, Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, Antibiotics Livestock, Farm Animals Antibiotics, Health News, Healthy Living News
Laura Rogers

As our lawmakers in the Senate discuss the fees that companies will pay to help the FDA expedite drug reviews, they should also require those companies to provide information that helps the agency protect people from drug-resistant superbugs.

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Rising Resistance: New Film Explores Superbug Spread As Health Concerns Grow

Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.28.2013 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Infectious Disease, Factory Farming, Mrsa, Superbugs, Lynne-Peeples, Green News
Lynne Peeples

Welcome to my blog, Toxic Tracks. Please send along any feedback via email or Twitter. A new documentary aims to address an issue that "affects milli...

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A New Year's Resolution: Put Animals on an Antibiotics Diet

Laura Rogers | Posted 02.27.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Fda, Pew Charitable Trusts, Antibiotics in Meat, Superbugs, Antibiotics Food, Healthy Living Health News, Animal Antibiotics, Fda Antibiotics, Antibiotics Overuse Superbugs, Antibiotics Overuse, Healthy Living News
Laura Rogers

As Americans ring in the new year, many of us will resolve to get healthy. Meat and poultry producers can help -- by making a resolution to put their farm animals on an antibiotics diet.

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FDA: Pull Back Big Pharma's Veil on Antibiotics Sold for Animal Feed

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 02.10.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Livestock, Fda, Health, Cafo, Superbugs, Factory Farm, Antibiotics, Food, Healthy Living Health News, Pharmaceutical Industry, Animal Antibiotics, Public Health, Antibiotics in Meat, Healthy Living News
David Wallinga, M.D.

So long as no one questions how and where antibiotics get used in food production, Big Pharma keeps profiting from selling more of these precious drugs than they ought to.

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NIH and Superbugs: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick | Posted 02.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs, Healthy Living Health News, Antibiotics Overuse Superbugs, Public Health, Antibiotics, Antibiotics Overprescribed, Health Care, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Antibiotics Overuse, Healthy Living News
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick

The emergence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria is a challenge that will be with us for years to come. The solution demands a strategic, thoughtful and collaborative team approach.

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Are Antibiotics Making Us Fat?

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 01.07.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Superbugs, Antibiotics, Asthma, Evolution, Diabetes, Obesity, Bacteria, Allergies, Antibiotics Food, Personal Health, Antibiotics Health, Antibiotics in Meat, Healthy Living News
Paul Spector, M.D.

Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but it might also do us in. A growing body of data suggests that a wide range of ills, from allergies and asthma to metabolic disease and superbugs, may be the consequence of our war on germs.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Are We Characters In A Video Game?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 10.24.2012 | Science
Read More: Attack of the Show, Video, Talk Nerdy to Me, Superbugs, Science, g4tv, Computer Simulation, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, The Matrix, Horatio Sanz, g4, Fecal Transplant, Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhea, Science News

I recently joined actor Horatio Sanz to discuss some mind-warping science topics on G4's tech culture program 'Attack of the Show.' Among them: German...

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Could Bill Nye Have Done More to Keep Creationism out of the Classroom?

James A. Shapiro | Posted 11.27.2012 | Science
Read More: Interspecific-Hybridization, Evolution Examples, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Multiple Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs, Creationism Evolution Debate, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Science News
James A. Shapiro

The most up-to-date evolution science is useful because we can demonstrate it in real time to Creationists and their children. That is by far the best way to change their thinking and reduce their influence on our schools.

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Mars Curiosity Landing, NIH Superbug, Wildfires Out West: A Look at the Biggest Federal Leadership Moments This Summer

Tom Fox | Posted 11.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Department of Education, Hurricanes, Nasa, Department of Defense, Federal Student Loans, Superbugs, Noaa, Wildfires, Mars, Mars Rover, Nih, Student Loans, Politics News
Tom Fox

While landing on Mars is not a routine event, there have been many other exemplary federal moments this summer, with agencies and civil servants performing at a high level.

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'Green News Report' - September 4, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.04.2012 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Green Jobs, Rnc, Fuel Efficiency, Epa, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Green Energy, Coal, Drought, Video, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Anti-Science, Gop, Hurricane Katrina, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Hurricane Isaac, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Meteorology, Global Warming, Energy, Climate, Mitt Romney, Carbon Dioxide, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Arctic, BRAD BLOG, Tipping Point, RNC Convention, Oil, Green News, Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Republicans, Pesticides, Dnc, Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs, Rats, Pollution Regulation, Democrats, Shell Oil, DNC Convention, Organic Food, Carbon Tax, Duke Energy, BP Oil Spill, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

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The Distinct Roles of Selection, Horizontal Transfer and Natural Genetic Engineering in Dangerous Superbug Evolution

James A. Shapiro | Posted 10.29.2012 | Science
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, William Hayes, Ruth Hall, Transmissable-Plasmid, Transposons, E.Coli, Integron, Superbugs, Resistance Plasmid, Science News
James A. Shapiro

There is no evolutionary phenomenon we understand better than multiple antibiotic resistance in bacteria. It has been occurring virtually synchronously with the development of molecular genetics for 60 years.

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Catherine Pearson

Good News About 'Super Bugs' In The Military

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 07.03.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mrsa Superbug, Video, Staph Infection, Staph Rates, Staph, Superbugs, Mrsa, MRSA Military, Super Bug, Healthy Living News

Cases of MRSA are declining in the military, according to new figures, and while researchers are not exactly sure what is causing the drop, they say i...

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Ending FDA Paralysis on Antibiotics With Two Court Victories and a Push for Transparency

Peter Lehner | Posted 08.21.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Livestock, Superbugs, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Cafo, Salmonella, Fda, Bacteria, Antibiotics in Meat, Mrsa, Food and Drug Administration, Green News
Peter Lehner

It's time for FDA to step up and ensure that antibiotics are preserved for when we need them most: to heal sick people.

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Lynne Peeples

Superbugs Threatening More Children, 'Supermoms' Targeting Antibiotic Use On Farms

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.15.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Mrsa, Superbugs, X Factor, Fda, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News

Everly Macario recalls the "primal shriek" her son released one fateful April morning in 2004. By the end of the day, Simon Sparrow, who had not yet t...

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Superbug Suit: Antibiotics Victory Will Preserve Medicines for Sick People, Not Healthy Livestock

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.26.2012 | Green
Read More: Factory Farms, Antibiotics, Farming, Fda, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Superbugs, Fda Antibiotics, Antibiotics Livestock 2012, Antibiotics Livestock, Green News
Peter Lehner

While conscientious doctors do their best to limit the use of unnecessary antibiotics, the livestock industry continued its indiscriminate use of these powerful medicines.

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Can "Superbug" Slime From Stratosphere Solve Earth's Power Problem?

Posted 02.24.2012 | Science
Read More: Fuel Cell, Video, Electricity, Space Bugs, Space Bacteria, Superbugs, Power, Bacteria, Space Germs, Germs, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 02/23/2012 04:24 PM EST on InnovationNewsDaily A U.K.-based research team has created a fuel cell that ...

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Antibiotics in Your Food: What You Need To Know

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.24.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics in Meat, Superbugs, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

During the height of the cold weather months, people count on antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. What they may not know is that current overuse of antibiotics is making bacteria more rapidly resistant to "essential antibiotics."

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Lynne Peeples

Going Hog Wild: Weaning Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Out Of Pork

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Staph Infection, Organic Food, Livestock, Agriculture, Superbugs, Mrsa, Pigs, Cafo, Antibiotics, Pork, Green News

After nearly succumbing to an antibiotic-resistant infection contracted from one of his hogs, Russ Kremer went cold turkey. He exterminated his diseas...

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Lynne Peeples

Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Still Broadly Unaddressed Despite 'Fanfare' For FDA Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.09.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Infectious Diseases, Livestock, Superbugs, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Fda, Cephalosporins, Green News

The Food and Drug Administration's latest move concerning the use of antibiotics in farm animals garnered a good deal of praise last week, but public ...

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'Green News Report' - January 5, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 03.06.2012 | Green
Read More: Antarctica, Fracking, Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Iran, Innovation, Dioxin, Fda, Green News Report, Pollution, Chevron Ecuador, Coal, Sharks, Offshore Drilling, Antibiotic Resistance, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Insurance, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Climate Science, Superbugs, Food Politics, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Chevron, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Farming, Maple Syrup, Factory Farming, Nuclear Power, Brazil, Ecuador, Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, Subsidies, New York, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Food, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, Video, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Riots ove...

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What's in Your Christmas Ham?

Rep. Louise Slaughter | Posted 02.21.2012 | Home
Read More: Pamta, Antibiotic Resistance, Sustainable Agriculture, Christmas, Superbugs, Home News
Rep. Louise Slaughter

Before you sit down to your holiday ham this season, think on this -- nearly half of pigs on U.S. farms carry MRSA, a "super bug" that causes all kinds of tough-to-treat infections.

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Lynne Peeples

Do You Know Where Your Turkey's Been?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.29.2011 | Green
Read More: Holidays, Green Holiday, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Factory Farms, The Infection Loop, Fda, Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Food, Mrsa, Superbugs, Turkey Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Antibiotics, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Green News

As families across America adorn their dinner tables with plump, juicy turkeys this Thursday, they've likely given little thought to what their future...

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'Green News Report' - September 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.22.2011 | Green
Read More: Cap and Trade, Fracking, Gasland, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Bill Clinton, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Barack Obama, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Protests, Green News, Sustainability, Heatwave, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, Russia, House of Representatives, Lisa Jackson, House Energy Committee, Factory Farms, Superweeds, Coal, Rick Perry, Monsanto, Chernobyl, Antibiotic Resistance, Tar Sands, Drought, Oil Spill, Africa, Superbugs, San Francisco, Bpa, Elijah Cummings, Gmos, Poverty, Darrell Issa, Subsidies, BP Oil Spill, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S VERY SCARY RADIO REPORT...

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Lynne Peeples

Superbugs Are Still Winning: Second Cargill Recall Underscores Concern, GAO Report Suggests Feds Aren't Doing Enough

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.15.2011 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Livestock, Mrsa, Superbugs, Factory Farms, Antibiotics, The Infection Loop, Salmonella, Gao, Gao Report Antibiotic Resistance, Green News

Just days after Cargill announced its second major recall in the last two months of ground turkey linked to antibiotic-resistant salmonella, a new re...

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