The Drugs Don't Work By Sally Davies

Antibiotics add, on average, twenty years to our lives. For over seventy years, since the manufacture of penicillin in 1943, we have survived extraordinary operations and life threatening conditions. We are so familiar with these wonder drugs that we take them for granted. The truth is that we have been abusing them, as patients, as doctors, as travellers, in our food.
No new class of antibacterial has been discovered for over twenty-six years and the bugs are fighting back. If we do not take responsibility now, in a few decades we may start dying from the most commonplace of operations and ailments that can today be treated easily. 
This penguin special, by Professor Dame Sally C. Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England, is vital in raising awareness for the future health of out children and our grandchildren.