Author: Dr. Larry Moore and Dr. Kajsa Harris

Antibiotics have transformed the practice of medicine over the past century, allowing doctors to cure bacterial infections that once meant amputations, disabilities and often death. Now doctors are increasingly seeing patients with infections like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) that are not responding to usually effective antibiotics. Widespread misuse of these curative medicines undermines their effectiveness.…