I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.

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When Alexander Fleming identified penicillin almost a century ago,

it allowed doctors to treat life-threatening infections.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.

In the 21st century, antibiotics are losing their power.

Pathogens have developed resistance to many of the most commonly used medications.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Matt McCarthy is concerned.

These drug-resistant bacteria and fungi are everywhere.

They are in our grocery stores, they're in our homes, they're in our cars,

they're in the nostrils of our health care workers. 5% of health care doctors and

nurses have MRSA in their nose.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn about the race to stop the epidemic of

superbugs.

First, the news.

In the People First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, coronary artery bypass grafting known as cabbage for short

is more effective than stents for treating patients with more than one blocked artery.

For years, stents have been overtaking cabbage surgery because it's less invasive.

However, a new study shows that for people with multi-vessel coronary artery disease, cabbage

results in lower mortality after one year, 7.2 percent compared to 11.5 percent of the patients who had undergone stint placement instead.

There were over 800 patients in each group.

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