Around 750,000 of the almost 5 million annual deaths caused by antimicrobial resistance – when antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines no longer work on bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites – could be prevented, researchers say. In a damning set of papers in The Lancet, a British medical publication, researchers criticize the current approach to battling antimicrobial infections and say medicines could save more lives if pharmaceutical development were less driven by profit forecasts. The multi-national team of doctors and scientists also explained improvements to sanitation and infect…