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.

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A horror story . . . A startling and disturbing read * Scotsman *
Gets across a single point with devastating effect . . . A highly important message that, for a start, every MP and GP should be reading -- Popularscience.co.uk
If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine where treatable infections and injuries will kill once again * David Cameron, Prime Minister *

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Professor Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer for England. She is a haematologist with specialist research interest in sickle cell disease. But in her advisory post she guides government decisions on diverse subjects such as superbugs, drug trials and obesity. She developed the National Institute for Health Research in 2006 with a budget of e1 billion. She is an Emeritus Professor at Imperial College.