Antibiotic resistance is “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Each year in the U.S., at least 2.8 million people get an antibiotic-resistant infection, and more than 35,000 people die.
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Network Open suggests doctors prescribing those antibiotics may be partly to blame.
Today on Wellness Wednesday on All Sides with Ann Fisher: the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” in hospitals.
Guests
- Dr. Debra Goff, infectious disease specialist pharmacist and founding member of the Antibiotic Stewardship Program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and professor of pharmacy practice in the Ohio State College of Pharmacy
- Kevin Munro, Ewing Professor of Audiology, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom
- Dr. Kevin Hall, senior investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD
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