The Rise of Superbugs- MRSA In The News
Welcome to a world where drugs don’t work – MSNBC March 31st, 2011 When Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928 the first antibiotic, penicillin, we believed that we had the tools necessary to beat...
View ArticleOver 100 Million Doses Of Antibiotics Are Administered Every Year
More than 80 years ago, Alexander Fleming, a bacteriologist, theorized that antibacterial would be found in his own nasal mucus. During his experiment, a spore of a variant called Penicillium notatum...
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Foreign Superbugs Invade The U.S
Two new cases of what is being deemed an emerging “superbug” have been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both cases occurred in my home state of Rhode Island, and bring light...
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The Human Microbiome Project: When Bad Bacteria Turns Good
When we think of antibiotic misuse, we often think of how it contributes to big name superbugs such as C. diff and MRSA. But what often goes overlooked is how antibiotic misuse affects the many...
View ArticleAntibiotic Awareness Week: Stepping up to the Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance
Imagine a world where antibiotics are no longer effective and where even the simplest of illnesses, such as strep throat or a urinary tract infection, can lead to permanent disability, or even death....
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Antibiotic Usage needs to be Studied for Long Term Harm
Apart from the creation of superbugs, overuse of antibiotics has negative consequences including killing many of our beneficial bacteria. In the grand scheme of things, little is known about the...
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The Rise of Superbugs: How Far Have we Come?
In 1969, U.S. Surgeon General William Stewart reported to congress that it was “time to close the book on infectious diseases”. The advent of penicillin and methicillin in the 1940‘s and 50‘s changed...
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MRSA’s Image Problem is Killing Us
MRSA is a worldwide problem. In the U.S. alone at least 19,000 people die every year because of it. 100,000 more become infected with a disfiguring, disabling, life-altering MRSA-caused disease. And...
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Please Sir, I Want Some More …. Antibiotics: The over-prescription problem...
In the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, we’re familiar with the scene where the trembling waif of a boy famously asks, Please sir, I want some more, referring to a bowl of gruel. The sight of the...
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