Apr 25 Health Drug Company Gilead Gives $11M To Halt Hep C Rise In Ohio Valley Drug maker Gilead Sciences will give $11.3 million to help prevent and treat hepatitis C in Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina. That money is part of a five-year project aimed at a region that’s been hit hard by the viral disease. About 43,000 people in Kentucky have hepatitis C, according to recent […] By Lisa Gillespie Apr 25 Health Drug Company Gilead Gives $11M To Halt Hep C Rise In Ohio Valley Lisa Gillespie
Jan 20 Agriculture Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control offers a stark example of the declining power of medicine’s most important weapons against infectious disease. The CDC noted that a patient who died at a Nevada hospital last year had an infection that was resistant to 26 different antibiotic treatments. That’s essentially the entire antibiotic arsenal […] By Lisa Gillespie and Nicole Erwin Jan 20 Agriculture Stopping Superbug: A New Farm Rule Targets Antibiotic Resistance Lisa Gillespie and Nicole Erwin