ARAC in the News

• Washington Post
  Jul 20, 2018

ARAC Deputy Director Laura Rogers highlights ARAC's work in urgent care and a challenge faced by urgent care - patient expectation for antibiotics. 

• CQ Researcher
  Jun 18, 2018

CQ Researcher takes an in-depth look at antibiotic use in the U.S. and globally and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.

• ARAC
  Jun 13, 2018

WASHINGTON, DC (June 13, 2018)—The Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (Milken Institute SPH) today announced it has received a $3.1 million (£2.74 million) grant from the Wellcome Trust to study the impacts of California’s new legislation limiting the use of antimicrobial drugs given to livestock raised in the state.

• Scientific American
  May 23, 2018

Scientific American explores how climate change may fuel antibiotic resistance. ARAC Director Dr. Lance Price notes "I think that we are going to have a problem” unless action is taken down to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in people and animals.

• Wired
  May 10, 2018

Wired explores how a team of researchers were testing the best antibiotic regimen for preventing trachoma, a blinding bacterial infection, and discovered mass prescribing antibiotics was saving lives. The downside? Antibiotic resistance.