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Antibiotic resistance threatens to take us back to a time before penicillin when the majority of deaths were caused by infections. What are we doing to solve the crisis? Since antibiotics were introduced to the world in the mid-20th century, deaths attributable to infections dropped from over 50% to 10-15%.

Antibiotic resistance threatens to take us back to a time before penicillin when the majority of deaths were caused by infections. What are we doing to solve the crisis?

A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina died after being run over by construction equipment Friday, the Franklin County Sheriffs Office said.

Hamilton McMaster University is teaming up with the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) to tackle future global health threats.

A standoff between bacteria and antibiotic-producing fungi living on hedgehogs may have led to the rise of one type of MRSA some 200 years ago.

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A study out of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University has resulted in the discovery of a promising new antimalarial compound.

The WHO recognizes the spread of antibiotic resistance as one of today’s biggest threats to global health, food security, and development.

Published June 01. 2021 12:56AM  ANDOVER (AP) — A Connecticut town has a new monument to veterans exposed to Agent Orange, a project spearheaded by a local veteran who says he was harmed by the Vietnam War-era defoliant. The new memorial is set to be dedicated Saturday in Andover Veterans Monument Park. Gerry Wright, 72, got the idea for the monument a few years ago, while traveling around the country to gather signatures on a petition to expand treatment for Agent Orange-related ailments, t...

Gerry Wright said he felt so strongly about Vietnam veterans who were “sprayed and betrayed” that he took to the road after selling his businesses. In 2018, he drove an orange Honda Goldwing trike around the nation, gathering signatures on a petition to expand treatment for Agent Orange. And now, to raise awareness and honor all those who were exposed to the herbicide, Wright has spearheaded installation of a monument in his hometown.