Antibiotics

Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA? Is the way we raise our food giving us MRSA?

The antibiotics fed to the farm animals we eat may have helped to create superbugs like the drug-resistant staph bacteria known as MRSA.
  • Free drugs from your faucet

    How did tiny amounts of nearly every drug under the sun get into our drinking water -- and what are they doing to us?
  • Be prepared?

    Taking precautions against bioterrorism may not be as futile as you think.
  • Dr. Fart speaks

    Everything you want to know about flatulence, and some things you don't.
  • Green medicine

    How Cuba is integrating natural remedies into its public health care.
  • Flu be gone!

    Two new anti-flu drugs just hit the market and will be backed by millions in advertising. But do they work?
  • A moveable cough

    Dr. Bob explains consumption and reassures a woman who put on the wrong shoes.
  • Letters to the Editor

    Walsh doesn't understand blacks' progress, or their frustration; how do we fight antibiotics' failure?
  • Scary as hell

    People are dying because antibiotics can't keep up with resistant bugs.

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