Ep. 156: dooming ourselves with medicine

Our favorite boffin, Eileen Marks-Nelson, is here to chat with us about a listener science concern that turned out to be WAY more troubling than we even anticipated: Antimicrobial resistance. Medicine has extended our lives, but has our use of it shortened them? Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells CoRri and Eileen about Miriam Rodriguez, the middle aged Mexican woman who took on the cartels solo to get justice for her daughter[15:09] Mark’s American child accent leads us to a brief discussion of Sylvester Stallone and the Rocky films, and then. we remember to introduce our pal Eileen Marks-Nelson[22:04] What we watched! (Fall of the House of Usher, The Reckoning, , Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Totally Killer, Vampire in Brooklyn, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Ernest Scared Stupid, Deadstream, Train To Busan, Dead Alive, The Host, Carrie, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Insidious, VHS85, The Creator)[69:10] Eileen tells us about antimicrobial resistance, and why we’re sleeping on one of the biggest threats to human existence Stuff we referenced: History of medicine – 20th Century, Advancements, Innovations | Britannica Bacteria | Basic Biology Ancient brew masters tapped antibiotic secrets | ScienceDaily Tetracycline-Labeled Human Bone from Ancient Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350) | Science Moulds in Ancient and more recent medicine  Antiviral Resistance: Antivirals, Antimicrobial Resistance, HIV (clevelandclinic.org) The Challenge of Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus: Lessons from Hospital Nurseries in the mid-20th Century ALEXANDER FLEMING Penicillin Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 Antibiotics: Conventional Therapy and Natural Compounds with Antibacterial Activity—A Pharmaco-Toxicological Screening Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs Penicillin | Discovery, History, Uses, Types, Side Effects, & Facts | Britannica Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice Changes in Intestinal Flora of Farm Personnel after Introduction of a Tetracycline-Supplemented Feed on a Farm | NEJM