Global Medicine Review is a talk show program hosted by Dr. Kamau Kokayi and Faybiene Miranda dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, culture and healing. The show airs on WBAI every Wednesday from noon - 1PM. You can download individual shows below or from iTunes. You can also subscribe to our iTunes feed and get the show automatically downloaded to iTunes or to your mp3 player.

Archive for April 14th, 2010

Rising Plague

Posted in Immune System, Public Health on 04/14/2010 01:31 pm by admin

Dr Kokayi interviews a west coast infectious disease specialist, Dr Brad Spellburg, the author of Rising Plague: the Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight them.  Well the subtitle says it all. Bacteria are becoming so rapidly resistant to antibiotics that its no longer profitable for pharmaceutical companies to focus on making these drugs.  This has become an international problem and bacteria have appeared that are resistant to every known antibiotic.  Dr Spellburg gives a very dramatic account of how this resistance can affect healthy people and what is at stake in the near future

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