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The Drugs Don't Work - A Global Threat (Paperback)
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The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally
Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England 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, twenty years
to our lives. For over seventy 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 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 antibacterial has been discovered for twenty six
years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take
responsibility now, in a few decades we may start dying from the
most commonplace of operations and ailments that can today be
treated easily. This short book, which will be enjoyed by readers
of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre,
will be the subject of a TEDex talk given by Professor Dame Sally
Davies at the Royal Albert Hall. Professor Dame Sally C. Davies is
the Chief Medical Officer for England and the first woman to hold
the post. As CMO she is the independent advisor to the Government
on medical matters with particular interest in Public Health and
Research. She holds a number of international advisory positions
and is an Emeritus Professor at Imperial College. Dr Jonathan Grant
is a Principal Research Fellow and former President at RAND Europe,
a not-for-profit public policy research institute. His main
research interests are on health R&D policy and the use of
research and evidence in policymaking. He was formerly Head of
Policy at The Wellcome Trust. He received his PhD from the Faculty
of Medicine, University of London, and his B.Sc. (Econ) from the
London School of Economics. Professor Mike Catchpole is an
internationally recognized expert in infectious diseases and the
Director of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control at Public
Health England. He has coordinated many national infectious disease
outbreak investigations and is an advisor to the European Centre
for Disease Prevention and Control. He is also a visiting professor
at Imperial College.
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