Rising antibiotic resistance: growing concern

Antibiotic Resistance –a Global Issue of Concern

Antibiotic resistance is currently the greatest challenge to the effective treatment of infections globally. Resistance adversely affects both clinical and financial therapeutic outcomes, with effects ranging from the failure of an individual patient to respond to therapy and the need for expensive and/or toxic alternative drugs to the social cost of higher morbidity and mortality rates, longer...

Rising concern over cosmetic tattoos.

BACKGROUND A rise in popularity of cosmetic tattoos has led to an increase in adverse reactions. Due to more pressing concerns, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not traditionally enforced its authority over tattoo inks. OBJECTIVE To raise awareness of the dangers of cosmetic tattoos. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed FDA policies regarding tattoo ink, different ink components, adv...

Antibiotic Resistance in Fish Farming Environments: A Global Concern

Brominated Flame Retardants Rising Levels of Concern

Invasive Species in Agriculture: a Rising Concern

Invasive species are not new phenomena in U.S. agriculture, as illustrated by these 1920s lyrics from the Boll Weevil folksong. The boll weevil entered the United States via Mexico in the 1890s, and by the 1920s, this pest had spread to all cotton producing states, wiping out tens of thousands of acres of cotton, costing billions of dollars, and literally driving thousands of farmers off the la...