The 10 X 20 push for new antibiotics to fight superbugs
The 10 X 20 push for new antibiotics to fight superbugs
According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention drug resistant bacterial infections kill tens of thousands of Americans each year and the World Health Organization considers antimicrobial resistance one of the three greatest threats to human health. The Infectious Disease Society of America has recently asked for a commitment from the Obama administration and the European Union to develop 10 new antibiotics by 2020. Will they commit and can 10 new antibiotics really make a difference?
Guests:
Dr. Brad Spellberg, Fellow at the Infectious Disease Society of America and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Patt Morrison for December 3, 2009
- Those pesky vanishing jobs: President’s summit tackles the jobless recovery
- The 10 X 20 push for new antibiotics to fight superbugs
- Supreme Court to hear anti-corruption law case
- Obama’s kicking K Street to the curb
- Higher education in California - how to bring back the golden gleam
- Can you get by without a checking or savings account? Many Americans do…..
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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