The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat
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An Inconvenient Truth for health - the shocking crisis in antibiotics
This is a story that affects us all- our friends, our family and our children. Antibiotics add, on average, 20 years to everyone's lives. Since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, for over 70 years we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. The truth is that we have been abusing them- as patients; as doctors; as travellers; in our food.
No new class of antibiotic has been discovered for 26 years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take action now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of ailments that can today be treated easily. This book is vital in raising awareness for the future health of our children and our grandchildren.
Author: Professor Dame Sally Davies
Format: Paperback, 112 pages, 111mm x 181mm, 67 g
Published: 2013, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Medicine: General
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An Inconvenient Truth for health - the shocking crisis in antibiotics
This is a story that affects us all- our friends, our family and our children. Antibiotics add, on average, 20 years to everyone's lives. Since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, for over 70 years we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. The truth is that we have been abusing them- as patients; as doctors; as travellers; in our food.
No new class of antibiotic has been discovered for 26 years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take action now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of ailments that can today be treated easily. This book is vital in raising awareness for the future health of our children and our grandchildren.
The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat