Show 1052: The Challenge of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ever since penicillin was discovered, scientists have realized that bacteria could develop resistance to antibiotics. In the last decade or so, these fears have become more acute. Many dangerous pathogens have evolved to become resistant to multiple antibiotics. Some have become impervious to drugs that are generally reserved for last-resort use. With the common use of many antibiotics to promote […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.8	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.3	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.6	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
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0:31.3	We count on antibiotics to cure us when we come down with an infection.
0:36.4	Now superbugs are becoming resistant to these drugs.
0:40.2	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:48.4	What will doctors do when superbugs develop resistance to the antibiotics of last resort?
0:56.6	That day has already arrived. What can be done to treat infections in a post-antibiotic era?
1:03.1	Is there anything we can do to slow the rise of superbugs? Has our overuse of antibiotics to treat
1:09.2	every ear infection contributed to this problem?
1:12.2	What about drugs used to fat and farm animals?
1:14.9	Will the FDA do anything to discourage overuse?
1:18.3	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, we find out about superbugs and how viruses might help fight them.
1:26.2	First, the news.
1:30.7	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, morning sickness is a common occurrence with early
1:36.8	pregnancy.
1:37.8	Although it can make women feel miserable, new research shows this cloud has one silver
1:43.4	lining.
1:44.4	Women who experience nausea and vomiting associated with the onset of pregnancy are 50 to 75 percent less likely to lose the baby before the pregnancy is completed.
1:55.9	The research included almost 800 young women very early in a confirmed pregnancy. All of these women were
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