Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine

<p>The development of antibiotics was one of the greatest turning points in the history of medicine. Bacterial infections that were once death sentences were cured within a matter of days after administration of these lifesaving compounds. But the honeymoon didn&rsquo;t last long, as resistant bacterial strains emerged and spread. Now, antimicrobial resistance poses one of the greatest threats to global health; frankly, we can&rsquo;t invent new antibiotics faster than resistance develops. Fortunately, there may be a solution, one that has existed even before antibiotics came on the scene: phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages to treat bacterial infections. In&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/3175/9781250283382" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/a/3175/9781250283382&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755268542008000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3h_dYSsrJjbVsvcZM13zFw">The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost&mdash;and Why It Will Rescue Us When An...