3 Aug 2020
PBS News Hour first part: report on collapsing antibiotic companies
Many of the latest antibiotics companies are failing. Our market driven economy hasn’t invested properly in the public goods to protect us in times of crises. Just as with...
3 Aug 2020
PBS News Hour second part; How a crumbling antibiotics infrastructure could yield “catastrophe”
Big pharma companies won’t buy antibiotics from small start-up companies because they can’t see how to make them profitable. The small start-ups can’t do it themselves because...
25 Jan 2020
The Guardian Announces ‘Sepsis deaths around the world are twice as high as previously thought’.
21 Jul 2019
Urinary Tract Infections Affect Millions. The Cures Are Faltering.
For generations, urinary tract infections, one of the world’s most common ailments, have been easily and quickly cured with a simple course of antibiotics. But there is growing evidence...
14 May 2019
Antibiotic Combinations Could Be A Revolution In Fight Against Superbugs
By combining several antibiotics in one go, researchers claim they’ve stumbled on a promising new treatment to prevent antibiotic resistance....
14 May 2019
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Creating Deadly Risks For Hip & Knee Operations
Hip & knee operations are becoming increasingly lethal due to the rise of antibiotic resistance health officials have warned....
14 May 2019
Take Over Pharma To Create New Medicines, Says Top Adviser
Part of the drugs industry should be taken over to make new antibiotics, an influential economist has argued....
15 Feb 2019
Antibiotic-Resistance-Plan-To-Fight-Urgent-Global-Threat
Drug resistant superbugs are as big a threat as climate change the health secretary will say as he unveils a new five year plan to tackle the problem....
27 Jul 2018
Develop New Antibiotics or Face Fines, Drug Firms Told
Research into preventing an antibiotics crisis could stop within a few years unless pharmaceutical companies are financially penalised for pulling out of developing drugs, an economist has warned....
9 Oct 2017
“Antibiotic apocalypse”: doctors sound alarm over drug resistance
The terrifying prospect that even routine operations will be impossible to perform has been raised by experts alarmed by the rise of drug-resistant genes. Scientists attending a recent meeting of...
29 Jul 2017
What happens when antibiotics stop working?
David Aaronovitch – whose life was saved by antibiotics after a routine operation went catastrophically wrong six years ago – talks to the scientists on a mission to solve the problem of...
29 Jun 2017
Antibiotic resistance breakers: can repurposed drugs fill the antibiotic discovery void?
Concern over antibiotic resistance is growing, and new classes of antibiotics, particularly against Gram-negative bacteria, are needed. However, even if the scientific hurdles can be overcome, it could take decades...
16 Jun 2017
Which invention won Britain’s Greatest Invention?
This clip (8:50) involves former newsreader Angela Rippon putting the case for antibiotics to be the winner of a poll to identify Britain’s Greatest Invention....
13 Jun 2017
Resistance to last-ditch antibiotics has spread further than anticipated
http://www.nature.com/news/resistance-to-last-ditch-antibiotic-has-spread-farther-than-anticipated-1.22140...
8 May 2017
Doctors call for urgent action on deadly superbug threat
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-04-21/worse-than-mrsa-experts-call-for-action-on-deadly-new-superbug...
23 Apr 2017
Doctors warn serious threat to patients from almost untreatable superbug
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/21/almost-untreatable-superbug-poses-serious-threat-to-patients-doctors-warn-carbapenemase-producing-enterobacteriaceae...
3 Feb 2017
Woman in USA Killed by Superbug resistant to all antibiotics
2017 January 13th. The Telegraph news article about a woman in Nevada that has been killed by a superbug that proved resistant to every antibiotic available in the US, the Centers...
27 May 2016
CDC sees ‘steady increase’ in drug-resistant bacteria
The patient ... described yesterday [by officials] has a Colistin-resistant plasmid that spreads resistance. [Colistin] is last antibiotic in our arsenal....
14 Apr 2016
Helperby - News
On March 9th 2016 Helperby Therapeutic held a pre-IND meeting with the FDA division of Anti-Infective products. The outcome is a road map for the clinical development of a drug product...
18 Feb 2016
Helperby Participating in ‘Combating Antibiotic Resistance’ Webcast
Helperby Therapeutics to participate in Webcast on Combating antibiotic resistance London, United Kingdom. Professor Anthony R.M. Coates, Chief Scientific Officer of Helperby Therapeutics, will participate in a BioPharma Dealmakers...
8 Jan 2016
Scientists find MCR-1 in food and humans in UK
Scientists have detected the first plasmid mediated colistin resistance (mcr-1) gene in food and human isolates in England and Wales....
8 Jan 2016
Resistance to last resort antibiotic has now spread across the globe
The last drug has fallen. Bacteria carrying a gene that allows them to resist polymyxins, the antibiotics of last resort for some kinds of infection, have been found in Denmark...
8 Jan 2016
Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of ‘post-antibiotic era’
The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed....
17 Nov 2015
Antibiotics - the beginning or the end?
The world is running out of antibiotics: “A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it.” Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General WHO, 14 March, 2012. Finding new...
11 Aug 2015
What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore?
Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages afforded us by that and...
11 Aug 2015
The Observer highlights Helperby
Low profit margins and the difficulty of finding new drugs has led to big pharma shutting down its antibiotics programmes. But now researchers are adopting new approaches to tackle drug-resistant...
11 Jul 2015
Analysis: Antibiotic Apocalypse
A terrible future could be on the horizon, a future which rips one of the greatest tools of medicine out of the hands of doctors. A simple cut to your...
8 Jun 2015
Helperby Antibiotic Resistance Breakers on BBC News
Please see the following video clip from the BBC News, and the BBC's Panorama, discussing how Helperby can help with the fight against antibiotic resistance...
8 Jun 2015
Helperby is now a member of the newly launched BEAM Alliance
Helperby is now a member of the newly launched the Alliance of Biotechs of Europe innovating in Anti-Microbial Resistance, called the BEAM Alliance. This group of European biotechnology companies is...
