The Drugs Don't Work: A Global Threat

"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) Antibiotics add, on average, 20 years to our lives. For more than 70 years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life-threatening infections. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we...