Editorials

4 June 2026

France launches a digital platform dedicated to antibiotic resistance

Editorials

Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria pose a growing global threat to human, animal, and environmental health. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) manifests as the failure of treatment for an infection caused by a microorganism (bacteria, virus, fungus, or parasite). It can le ...

17 June 2025

Antibiotic therapy, everyone’s business

Editorials, News

The rise in antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly critical public health issue worldwide. It requires the mobilisation of various public and private players in the healthcare sector. Among them, pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer have been involved for years in the fight again ...

28 May 2025

Social science perspectives on understanding and overcoming antibiotic dependence

Editorials

It is now common knowledge that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a social problem that must not only be studied as a biomedical challenge, but for which other factors - i.e. sociological, economic, political and cultural determinants - must be taken into account. Most research into soci ...

19 February 2025

Europe united in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Editorials

Antibiotic resistance (AMR) is now one of the major public health challenges worldwide. Antibiotics, which are essential to modern medicine, are used to treat and prevent many infections, particularly during surgery, transplants and chemotherapy.

20 September 2024

Attempting to improve access to “forgotten” antibiotics in Europe

Reliable access to antibiotics is an essential part of a functioning modern healthcare system, meaning that infections can be treated and advanced procedures like chemotherapy and organ transplants can be performed at acceptable risk levels.

1 July 2024

Diagnostic tests – an asset for the proper use of antibiotics

Editorials
France
Antimicrobial Resistance, diagnostic test, Editorial, public-private partnership, resistance

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, diagnostic tests such as PCR and rapid tests have become part of the public lexicon. Rapid diagnosis also plays a crucial role in identifying and treating microbial infections, and in slowing down antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

15 February 2024

Transferable exclusivity extensions to fund research into antibiotic resistance

Editorials
France
Antimicrobial Resistance, Editorial, Funding, Industrial partner, resistance

While the need for new antibiotics is urgent and should naturally attract investors, there is too little innovation and R&D in the field of antibiotic resistance. We are facing what is known as a market failure, the main reason for which is linked to the need to preserve their value for publ ...

14 September 2023

Antimicrobial Resistance: The Silent Pandemic

Editorials
France
Antimicrobial Resistance, Editorial, Industrial partner

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a ‘silent’ or ‘overlooked’ pandemic, 1,2 is classed as a threat to global health and development by the World Health Organization (WHO). If left unchecked, it could cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050,3 cost the global economy US ...

2 June 2023

Editorial by Jean-Yves Madec

Editorials
France
Anses, Antimicrobial Resistance, OneHealth

Antibiotic resistance: One Health or not One Health?

5 May 2023

Editorial by Frédéric Peyrane and Florence Séjourné

Editorials

2023: a pivotal year for innovation in antibiotic resistance?

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