antibiotic resistance

Nearly 50,000 Americans die of resistant bacterial infections each year, but the FDA has not approved a new antibiotic since 2019.

The Gresham Democrat and retired public health nurse hopes to follow up on new California restrictions on antibiotic use to ban the use of the medications as a preventive treatment in healthy animals. Most antibiotics in America are used on animals, not humans, and the excessive use of the medications risks the creation of bacterial superbugs that could render the lifesaving drugs worthless.

For the Oregon legislature, Mick Jagger was half right. Progressives sometimes got what they wanted, but in at least two cases, they didn’t get what they needed most.

Oregon has a chance to make public health history this legislative session in Salem.