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Antibiotic Resistance Will Overtake Cancer. We Are Not Behaving Like It Will

Antibiotic-resistant infections killed 1.27 million people in 2019. Cancer killed roughly 10 million. The gap is real, and anyone collapsing it is misreading the data. But resistance rose in over 40% of monitored pathogen-antibiotic combinations between 2018 and 2023, and the broken economics of antibiotic development mean we are watching a slow catastrophe with the wrong urgency.

By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read

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Antibiotics Cannot Fix a Cold, and the Bill Arrives Years Later

A single course of the wrong antibiotic can reshape your gut microbiome for up to 8 years. A Nature Medicine study of nearly 15,000 adults has the receipts. The cold it was prescribed for? Still viral. Still unaffected.

By Dr. Alex Chen · 3 min read