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Long courses, confusion and culture: why we're losing the fight against antibiotic resistance

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWe often don’t know exactly how long is necessary to treat many infections.funnyangel/Shutterstock

Doctors often tell patients to take a “course” of antibiotics, because a partially treated infection may result in relapse with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But where does this advice come from?

As Lyn Gilbert has pointed out on The...

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Governments undermining encryption will do more harm than good

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWestern governments are threatening to undermine the encryption that keeps our online communications private.Shutterstock

Western governments, notably the UK and the US, are pushing the software industry to open “backdoors” into our encrypted communications.

The argument touted by government agencies for nearly 20 years is that...

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