Show 948: Superbugs, Stethoscopes and New Technologies to Prevent the Spread of Infection

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Do you take antibiotics for granted? Many of us do. After all, these drugs have been saving lives for decades, serving as magic bullets against deadly infections such as pneumonia, gangrene or blood poisoning since the middle of the 20th century. Superbugs Sneer at Antibiotics: Unfortunately, the bacteria that cause infections have been evolving and […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.0	And I'm Terry Graydon.
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0:29.6	Antibiotic-Restant bacteria are found in almost all hospitals.
0:34.5	Are drug-resistant bugs becoming a public health nightmare?
0:39.9	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. For decades, antibiotics have been our lifeline against a wide range
0:52.7	of bacteria. Infections that used to kill were tamed with modern pharmaceuticals, but increasingly,
0:58.7	superbugs have evolved to be resistant to even our most powerful antibiotics.
1:03.4	Doctors and other health care workers may be contributing unwittingly to the spread of drug-resistant microbes.
1:09.4	Even when physicians and nurses wash their hands,
1:12.1	they rarely disinfect their stethoscopes.
1:14.8	New evidence says they should.
1:16.6	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:18.6	stethoscopes, superbugs, and robots to prevent infection.
1:23.9	First, this news.
1:28.5	In the People's Pharm health headlines, scientists have a new scapegoat in the search for the drivers of the obesity epidemic.
1:36.4	A study conducted among more than 9,000 Spanish university students for five years found a link between eating white bread
1:45.9	and the risk of adding extra pounds.
1:48.9	Two servings or more of white bread daily bumped the risk of becoming overweight by 40%.
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