Good News at the Wrong Time

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that two drugs used to treat bone loss in old folks can both kill and short-circuit the “sex life” of antibiotic-resistant bacteria blamed for nearly 100,000 hospital deaths across the country each year. (Read article)

It’s very hard for me to read that two months after my dad died from an infection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria resulting from a gall bladder problem. I’m hopeful for future sufferers of this type of illness, but for us it’s just too late.