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Mashup Score: 2How Preventing Antibiotic Overuse Is Helping Fight Superbugs - 13 day(s) ago
Antibiotics have revolutionized modern medicine by making it possible to prevent and treat previously life-threatening infections, but their overuse and misuse can cause bacteria to mutate and develop resistance to the drugs intended to treat them.
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Mashup Score: 16As Partners in Cutting-Edge Biomedical Research, Pew-Supported Scientists Seek Answers - 14 day(s) ago
The 16 accomplished scientists in The Pew Charitable Trusts’ 2024 class of Innovation Fund investigators have expertise in microbiology, immunology, bioengineering, and more—and are teaming up to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing human health. Collaboration is essential to scientific innovation. Many of the vital treatments, therapies, and vaccines available today have resulted from researchers around the world combining their efforts in pursuit of discovery.
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Our 2024 Innovation Fund class is here🧬 16 scientists are teaming up to tackle major biomedical challenges. From the gut microbiome to the brain’s innerworkings, their collaborative research is poised to transform health and medicine. This year's class👇https://t.co/6u6FynWxKQ https://t.co/jDcdnhsgAr
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In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. The comprehensive plan comes as suicide deaths among Americans have reached a record high.
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"Our health system needs to increase the number of suicide prevention professionals that come from historically marginalized communities or have lived experience with suicide." Colleen Car of @Action_Alliance https://t.co/bCEgvxSOhZ
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Mashup Score: 2How Preventing Antibiotic Overuse Is Helping Fight Superbugs - 15 day(s) ago
Antibiotics have revolutionized modern medicine by making it possible to prevent and treat previously life-threatening infections, but their overuse and misuse can cause bacteria to mutate and develop resistance to the drugs intended to treat them.
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For more than a decade, we worked to combat antibiotic resistance. Although our project is winding down, the fight against superbugs carries on. More on our progress, and the urgent issue: https://t.co/Oy52Eb7WKI
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Mashup Score: 2How Preventing Antibiotic Overuse Is Helping Fight Superbugs - 18 day(s) ago
Antibiotics have revolutionized modern medicine by making it possible to prevent and treat previously life-threatening infections, but their overuse and misuse can cause bacteria to mutate and develop resistance to the drugs intended to treat them.
Source: www.pewtrusts.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
For more than a decade, we worked to combat antibiotic resistance. Although our project is winding down, the fight against superbugs carries on. More on our progress, and the urgent issue: https://t.co/Oy52Eb7WKI
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For Adam, drinking alcohol was like turning on a Christmas tree. “My brain would light up and I’d want more and more,” he said in an interview with The Pew Charitable Trusts. “But taking naltrexone, it’s like someone unplugged the tree. It never lights up.”
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“One of the first times I took Naltrexone, I couldn’t finish a glass of wine.” Abstinence isn't the only way to treat alcohol use disorder. Naltrexone is one of three medications approved by the @US_FDA, but stigma and lack of awareness stand in the way. https://t.co/ohbHfXbTzl
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In April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released its 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. The comprehensive plan comes as suicide deaths among Americans have reached a record high.
Source: www.pewtrusts.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General NewsTweet-
"Our health system needs to increase the number of suicide prevention professionals that come from historically marginalized communities or have lived experience with suicide." Colleen Car of @Action_Alliance https://t.co/bCEgvxSOhZ
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Mashup Score: 2How Preventing Antibiotic Overuse Is Helping Fight Superbugs - 20 day(s) ago
Antibiotics have revolutionized modern medicine by making it possible to prevent and treat previously life-threatening infections, but their overuse and misuse can cause bacteria to mutate and develop resistance to the drugs intended to treat them.
Source: www.pewtrusts.orgCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet-
For more than a decade, we worked to combat antibiotic resistance. Although our project is winding down, the fight against superbugs carries on. More on our progress, and the urgent issue: https://t.co/Oy52Eb7WKI
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Mashup Score: 0A Few Simple Questions Can Help Prevent Suicide - 20 day(s) ago
Each year, thousands of people in the United States see a health care professional weeks or days before they take their own lives.
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About half of people who die by suicide visit a health care provider within four weeks of their death. A few simple questions by health care providers can help prevent these deaths. https://t.co/0AmhuZwhET
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Mashup Score: 1Better Data Doesn't Just Save Money; It Saves Lives - 21 day(s) ago
Maria Cervania is a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state’s 41st district, and serves on the Health House Standing Committee. An epidemiologist by training, Cervania has served as a public health educator, advocate, and practitioner over the course of her career, and knows firsthand how public health data can help save lives and money.
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Why is public health data important? It can help us identify and fix problems -- with water quality, food safety, and more. We spoke with @mcervania on how modernizing public health data can save both money and lives. https://t.co/QWhTXNrsDE
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For more than a decade, we worked to combat antibiotic resistance. Although our project is winding down, the fight against superbugs carries on. More on our progress, and the urgent issue: https://t.co/Oy52Eb7WKI