This is a high profile article in the most major of U.S. newspapers and should signal a ratcheting up of the concern about antibiotic-resistant microbes. Now let's say we lose vancomycin. They're going to go up. This number could double. The impact of a post-vancomycin era on medicine and surgery will be staggering.
Complete resistance looms on the horizon.
The need to avoid infection and to respond effectively to infection on a natural basis has never been greater. The galling part of this discussion is that the problem is being laid at the feet of the patient. This whole matter got rolling at the hands of the medics and then the people responded to their promises. From the London Daily Telegraph comes and article by way of the Chicago Sun-Times reporting on a study completed at University College in London by Professor Maria Fitzgerald addressing pain in newborns. Professor Fitzgerald and colleagues have established, contrary to long held beliefs, that infants can and do experience pain, they do not possess the ability to dampen down pain as does the adult, and that pain perception by infants is, in fact, more acute and sensitive than it is in adults.