24 Nov 2016 | Our stories
The crisis of antibiotic resistant superbugs has been creeping up on us for the past 88 years. Alexander Flemming, discoverer of penicillin, the first antibiotic, in that year, said it well when he received is Nobel prize: “It is not difficult to make microbes...
24 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Down in Otago, researchers’ focus on microbiology fundamentals is leading New Zealand’s fight against drug resistant pathogens. In May 2016 the UK government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) published its final report, summarising the Review’s findings from...
24 Nov 2016 | Our stories
We are nearing a crisis point in our use (and, sadly, misuse) of antibiotics. Indeed, the World Health Organisation recently described humanity as being in “a race against time” to develop antibiotics against multi-drug resistant superbugs [i]. If we cannot find...
24 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Heart defects are collectively the commonest abnormality in newborn babies. About one infant in every 150 has some form of defect; a hole in the heart, or parts of the heart underdeveloped or in the wrong place. Four hundred children every year undergo heart surgery...
23 Nov 2016 | Our stories
Last week was World Antibiotic Awareness week, an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance. To follow-up, here at Te Pūnaha Matatini we are having a week-long conversation about the health,...
