I thought I knew what I was getting myself into when I started this project on meat and antibiotic use in animals, but what Environmental Working Group’s team found still shocked me: federal scientists routinely find antibiotic-resistant bacteria – often called superbugs – in meat I regularly buy...

It’s not often that you get to hear a top federal health official deliberately deploy a headline-grabbing word such as “nightmare,” or warn: “We have a very serious problem, and we need to sound an alarm.” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said both...

I am writing this blog on behalf on an important group, Supermoms Against Superbugs , as they approach their Superbugs Advocacy Day – April 16 – to bring awareness to the overuse of antibiotics. Below is a quote from them… “Doctors routinely warn patients that antibiotics should be used only to...

One of the medications dispensed at the pharmacy, are antibiotics, whose invention is attributed to Fleming, but was really the discoverer? According to the Spanish Royal Academy an antibiotic is a chemical substance produced by a living or manufactured synthetically, could paralyze development of...