How we can stop antibiotic resistance

I believed we would face an antibiotics apocalypse - until now | Richard James

For decades my research showed the dangers of new strains of resistance, and this week we heard of another threat. But there’s been a breakthrough

First new antibiotic in 30 years discovered in major breakthrough

The first new antibiotic to be discovered in nearly 30 years has been hailed as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the fight against the growing resistance to drugs.

Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn

The World Health Organization released new treatment guidelines that acknowledge an entire class of antibiotics is now all but useless against the sexually transmitted disease.

We live in a golden age of biology. So why are people still dying from disease? Because discovery and development move slower than they should. Today, we’re partnering with Incyte to change… | Samuel G. Rodriques | 491 comments

We live in a golden age of biology. So why are people still dying from disease? Because discovery and development move slower than they should. Today, we’re partnering with Incyte to change that. Kosmos is now the first agent that can compress months of drug development into weeks, from the earliest stages of scientific discovery through to FDA approval. Incyte will be the first company to deploy it across their pipeline. Work that used to take a team of scientists months now happens in weeks. Patients can't wait, and neither can we. | 491 comments on LinkedIn

Want More Policies Based on Evidence?

Medicine teaches us it will take time, effort, and investment.

Resistance Is Futile. To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead. (Published 2018)

An inconvenient bit of neuroscience: The more you try not to think about a bad habit, the harder it gets to resist. So think about something else.

Resistance Is Your Friend

As candles attract moths, so innovation offers attract resisters. You know this from experience. You work hard to propose something of demonstrable benefit to your clients or community and their first inclination is to resist it. Logical arguments do not change their minds. Optimists unhelpfully tell you to keep your chin up because resistance signifies you are doing something important. You start to wonder if anyone takes you seriously. Resistance is so common and intractable that it has a name: Valley of Death. Everyone wishes you good luck in getting through it alive. What is the story about resistance?

The Abstinence Method - Modern Farmer

Dutch farmers just say no to antibiotics for livestock.

Strengthening biosecurity in the era of AI

AI is reshaping biology, unlocking breakthroughs while raising new risks. Learn how smarter safeguards can strengthen biosecurity without slowing innovation.

How we rank the world's most pressing problems (and why)

We started with global health, then pandemics. Now we focus on AI risk. How our views changed and what problems we'd recommend you work on today.

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

A Life-Saving Checklist

If something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

The World Is Already Resisting AI. Now, There is a List to Prove It.

Petra Molnar spotlights the launch of the AI Resist List, documenting global challenges to AI expansion.

Opinion | Educate Your Immune System (Published 2016)

Our bodies are confused by this 21st-century world.

Opinion | Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows (Published 2019)

Australia seems to have found a way to entice Big Pharma into making essential new medicines affordable. Why can’t the United States?

Kofi Annan On Why Drug Bans Are Ineffective

Drugs are dangerous, but current narcotics policies are an even bigger threat because punishment is given a greater priority than health and human rights. It's time for regulations that put lives and safety first, argues former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.