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Help Scientists Combat the Next Global Health Crisis

An op-ed by Dean J. Paranicas, HINJ President and Chief Executive Officer and Christopher P. Molineaux, President and Chief Executive Officer of Life Sciences Pennsylvania

December 26, 2021 – Nature is always finding fresh ways to attack human health. As America and the world combat the most serious global health crisis in a century, it’s hard to imagine another grave health emergency that could rival — or exceed — the effect of COVID-19 on the lives and daily routines of billions of people. And yet, one has begun to gain traction.

 

This next imminent health crisis involves the continued evolution of microbial “superbugs” that have become resistant to the antibiotics we’ve used to treat them over the past century — a situation known as antimicrobial resistance, or “AMR.”  Read more here.