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A growing number of Americans are building immunity to antibiotics, which can make them more vulnerable to illnesses and infections. There are about 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which cause at least 35,000 annual deaths. And those numbers are likely an understatement, according to

A growing number of Americans are building immunity to antibiotics. Dr. Marc Siegel discussed potential causes and solutions on "America's Newsroom" this week.

A growing number of Americans are building immunity to antibiotics. Dr. Marc Siegel discussed potential causes and solutions on "America's Newsroom" this week.

The report has brought to attention the increasing danger of bacteria that are resistant to modern medicine. This problem has already reached alarming levels in many areas of the world.

The primary drug used to treat the sexually transmitted infection could be scarce into next year, Pfizer warns.

A new shortage of a type of penicillin crucial to the fight against syphilis is alarming infectious disease experts, who warn that a protracted scarcity of the drug could worsen the U.S. epidemic of the sexually transmitted infection. The shortage, announced by the drugmaker Pfizer in a letter last month, involves Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injectable antibiotic also known as penicillin G benzathine. The company cited significant increases in demand because of the rising rate of syphilis infect

The current reimbursement system in the United States discourages some forms of innovations in health care. The development of new antibiotics that aren’t needed now but could be down the road are a case in point. A subscription-based pricing model could address this problem.

Without immediate action, humanity could be headed back to the pre-antibiotic era, experts with the World Health Organization say.

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Abortion access? Mental health coverage? Additional pricing regulations? Any number of legislative priorities are set to fill the COVID-19 void.