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Antibiotics are not terribly profitable, but they are critical to health care. Now, however, the most popular antibiotics are increasingly failing against antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, thanks to overuse in both humans and agriculture. STAT’s team of reporters are covering new policy solutions, efforts from pharmaceutical companies, health care worker and patient education around antibiotics, and the public health perspective.

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Health Deborah Balthazar

Phage therapy: Researchers sharpen another arrow in the quiver against antibiotic resistance

First Opinion Manica Balasegaram

Gaza, Ukraine, and other conflicts could be accelerating antibiotic resistance

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Amid fears of superbugs, sales of antibiotics used in food-producing livestock rose last year

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Sales of antibiotics for food-producing animals dropped by more than half in Europe over the past decade

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: FDA cites cancer links in seeking to withdraw approval of antibiotic used in pigs

Health Helen Branswell

New antibiotic targets gonorrhea as well as last existing treatment, study shows

The Readout Damian Garde

STAT Plus: The XBI biotech index hit its lowest point since 2018. No one knows what comes next.

In the Lab Jason Mast

Giant sloths and woolly mammoths: Mining past creatures’ DNA for future antibiotics

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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: McDonald’s adds targets for limiting antibiotic use in beef to its menu, but doesn’t say when

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Amid fears of superbugs, sales of antibiotics used in food-producing livestock barely declined last year

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First Opinion Carlos del Rio

Congress: Confront the superbug crisis and pass PASTEUR

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Sales of antibiotics for food-producing animals dropped by nearly half in Europe over the past decade

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Several big U.S. grocery chains are failing to stop antibiotic overuse in their meat supply chains

First Opinion Steven Roach

FDA and USDA need to get on board with the CDC about reducing antibiotic use in raising animals for food

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: ‘Eye-opening’: The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated antimicrobial resistance across the U.S.

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: In a first-of-its-kind deal, major drugmaker licenses antibiotic production for low-income countries

First Opinion Harry Rhodes

FDA needs to follow through on its plan to ban carbadox in animal feed

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: U.K. readies a Netflix-style subscription payment model for badly needed antibiotics

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Pharma’s ambitious new antibiotic venture fund makes its first investments

First Opinion Janet Midega

New global data showing 1.27 million deaths a year reveal the urgent need to address antimicrobial resistance

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Biden administration seeks a legislative path for novel antibiotic drug development

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: McDonald’s accused of dragging its feet on goal of reducing antibiotic use in beef supplies

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: A lack of access: Pharma is failing to ensure new antibiotics will be available to poor countries, analysis finds

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

First Opinion Natalie Ma

My company is developing new antibiotics. My resistant infection showed me we need them now