Ara Darzi on why antibiotic resistance could be deadlier than cancer
To get on top of the crisis, stop prescriptions without a proper diagnosis, argues the surgeon and politician
I HAVE SPENT much of my career at St Mary’s Hospital, in London, a short walk from the laboratory where in 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming made his epoch-defining discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic.
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Lebanon’s former foreign minister says any Israeli plan to reshape the country is a recipe for more chaos
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Philippe Lazzarini says the blows to humanitarian law in Gaza harm us all
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