Surgeon Gabriel Weston visited the Eliava Institute in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to find out more about a decades-old treatment that could prove vital in the battle against drug resistant superbugs. Our generation has been lucky enough to live through a golden age in medicine – the age of antibiotics, where drugs to…
Once upon a time, antibiotics revolutionized healthcare. Nowadays, however, their overuse and the rise of drug-resistant infections are cause for alarm. An Evergreen Specialty Since 1973 by Meryl Lipman with Annie Ferguson ’15 Every year, antibiotic-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people in Europe and the United States alone. A study commissioned in Britain suggests such…
Today is the day the antibiotic era ends. British scientists announced this week that they have found bacteria that are resistant to our final antibiotic frontier – polymyxins, a last-resort drug used when nothing else works. Discovered in hospitalised patients in China, the superbugs, similar to E.coli, have probably already spread to Laos and Malaysia. And scientists…