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Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Language
English
Description
Antibiotics initially worked miracles, saving millions of lives. In just decades, many of the wonder drugs are ineffective. How did it happen? This program reports on a battle for survival between humans and microbes, providing a concise history of antibiotics, as well as tracing their decline in efficacy. Their overuse and misuse is examined in medicine, agriculture, and domestic cleaning products. Special attention is given to the world's first...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Our bodies are full of bacteria and other microbes, known collectively as the human microbiome. And while it may seem icky, most of those microbes aren’t our enemies. In fact, we need them to stay healthy. Everyone develops their own unique mix of microbe species, starting with the ones they are exposed to during birth. Over time, those microbial communities can shift, for better or worse.
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
Each year, an estimated 2 million people in the U.S. are infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria-and at least 23,000 die. As the crisis deepens, FRONTLINE correspondent David E. Hoffman turns his attention to the American farm, a sector that comprises an estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics sold. Hoffman travels the country to investigate new research out of Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Texas focusing on how antibiotics on the farm might be contributing...
Pub. Date
[2010], c1998
Language
English
Description
Only 50 years since the development of penicillin, bacteria has emerged that is resistant to every known antibiotic. Is the era of antibiotic wonder drugs coming to an end? This program searches for an answer to that question - an answer that will affect the lives of hundreds of millions around the world.
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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Belladonna, curare, snake venom-all are lethal, yet all may be used therapeutically. This program explores the fine line between harming and healing with an overview of poisons that are part of medical treatment. Beginning with Victorian-era experiments in painless surgery and the Arsenic Act of 1851, which made it harder for Londoners to murder each other but also paved the way for licensing of pharmacists, through to current poison derivatives that...
Pub. Date
[2009], c1998
Language
English
Description
Today's antibiotics are quickly losing their ability to combat bacterial infections. What has caused this pharmacological disaster? This program examines the link between the use of antibiotics in livestock as growth promoters and the rise of resistance to their effectiveness in humans. Although certain classes of antibiotics have already been banned in agricultural use, some authorities are fighting further bans because they deny the food chain link...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Colds, flu, most sore throats, and bronchitis are caused by viruses and therefore not treatable with antibiotics. In fact, the use of antibiotics when you have a virus can do more harm than good. Patients and their families need to work with their health care provider and pharmacist to find the best treatments. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the global advance of antibiotic-resistant superbugs and the threat they pose to modern medicine and millions of patients worldwide. Reporter Fergus Walsh travels to India and finds restricted, life-saving antibiotics on sale without prescription and talks to patients back in the UK whose recovery depends on them.
Pub. Date
[2012], c2008
Language
English
Description
Antibiotics were once seen as super drugs. They rapidly disarmed pneumonia and many other previously fatal bacterial conditions. They also had relatively few side effects. But the bacteria weren't ready to surrender. Strains emerged that were resistant to the world's most potent medicines, and now, because of these resistant strains of bacteria, we're facing a worldwide crisis. This episode of Healthy Body, Healthy Mind shows how the problem developed...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestselling author shares this exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs. Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The protective gear worn by motorcyclists can be extremely hot and uncomfortable in sweltering Australian conditions. Does heat stress contribute to accidents, and how protective is safety gear anyway? Mark Horstman lays his mind and body on the line as scientists put motorcycle clothing to the test. Also, what did the beginning of time look like - that moment of creation? What are the biggest explosions in the universe like? We've never been able...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2013
Language
English
Description
FRONTLINE reporter David Hoffman investigates the alarming rise of untreatable infections: from a young girl thrust onto life support in an Arizona hospital, to a young American infected in India who comes home to Seattle, and an uncontrollable outbreak at the nation's most prestigious hospital, where 18 patients were mysteriously infected and six died, despite frantic efforts to contain the killer bacteria. Fueled by decades of antibiotic overuse,...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
For decades, experts have been warning about the growing resistance to antibiotics. Could a rarely-discussed alternative hold the answer to the crisis? Phage therapy-the use of viruses which attack and destroy certain bacteria without harming their human hosts-has been around for longer than antibiotics. But it was forgotten in much of Europe once antibiotics became the standard treatment, and it is still not generally accepted there. However, partly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, talented "Life" magazine reporter Clara Shipley finds herself on top of one of the nation's most important stories--the race to discover penicillin at the Rockefeller Institute. When a researcher at the institute dies under suspicious circumstances, the stakes become starkly clear: a murder has been committed to obtain these lucrative new drugs. With lives and a new love hanging in the balance, Claire will put...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2012
Language
English
Description
Across the world we are seeing the emergence of bacteria that have gone rogue. These are the superbugs, dangerous bacteria that are becoming resistant to our only defense: antibiotics. Horizon meets scientists who are tracking the spread of these potential killers around the globe, and discovers new techniques researchers are developing to help defeat these superbugs.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
There’s been a rapid rise in the emergence of bacteria that don’t respond to traditional antibiotics. This makes bacterial infections a serious threat. This program will describe signs that an antibiotic may not be working as well as it should be and steps your healthcare providers can take to help prevent the development of resistance to antibiotics.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Researchers at the National University of Ireland Galwayare investigating the increasing amount of antibiotic resistant bacteria being discovered in waterways. This program explores the potential impacts of this on the environment and on human health, where bacteria such MRSA no longer respond to antibiotics, and suggest ways that we might be able to combat this trend through a combination of improved waste-water management, a reduction in the over...
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