by European Public Health Alliance | May 30, 2016 | Opinion
Looking for technical guidance by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Commission feels that now is the right time to act and develop guidelines on prudent use of antimicrobials in human medicine, similar to those that already...
by EPHA | May 3, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager for Health Systems, EPHA A recent conference in London, ’Antibiotics and Farming: Prescriptions for Change’ organised by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and Medact, explored the link between farming practices and drug-resistant...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 6, 2016 | Opinion
By Sascha Marschang, Policy Manager for Health Systems, EPHA. Votes on Veterinary Medicinal Products & Medicated Feed On 17 February 2016, the European Parliament’s Environment and Health Committee (ENVI) voted on proposals to limit the routine use of antibiotics...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 6, 2016 | Opinion
About one third of hospital patients are prescribed antibiotics and up to 50% of their use is unnecessary or inappropriate. ECDC data clearly reveals the causal association between the indiscriminate use of antibiotics and the spread of drug-resistant infections, also...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 2, 2016 | Opinion
In the wake of the ENVI Committee vote on 17 February, fifty medics, scientists and public health organisations (including the Royal College of Physicians and EPHA) signed a letter initiated by the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics demanding a ban to the “routine,...
