Richard Carmona

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

American Public Servant

Stephen Colbert

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.

American Comedian

Robert Winston

We give antibiotics to people when they're dying or when they're not well; that's acting God. I mean, acting God is using the tools of creation to try and improve human life, human existence. I don't think that that's a huge problem.

British Scientist

Jonathan Safran Foer

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

American Writer

Vaclav Smil

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

Czechoslovakian Scientist

Selman Waksman

In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.

Russian Scientist

Shinya Yamanaka

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

Japanese Scientist

Nargis Fakhri

I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.

American Actress

Tom Frieden

The more we look at drug resistance, the more concerned we are. It basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics.

Joel Fuhrman

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

American Scientist

The term 'antibiotic' is common in medical contexts but not in everyday conversation.

Usage Frequency

When discussing antibiotics, there's often a warning against overuse to prevent resistance.

Warnings of Overuse

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections, not viruses like the flu or common cold.

Non-Applicability

Use 'antibiotic' as an adjective to describe something related to these medicines.

Medical Context

'Antibiotic' as an adjective can modify nouns related to treatment or medication.

Adjective Forms

When used as an adjective, it doesn't make sense with illnesses or non-treatment contexts.

Selective Use

 delighted to be back to give you a little progress about what we've been doing in quorum sensing and so today I want to tell you one story about how we're taking what we learned about these bacteria talking together and trying to interfere with that conversation to make a fundamentally new kind of antibiotic and so the story I'll tell you about

Quorum sensing: Bacteria...

 Other scientists are investigating alternate solutions, such as phage therapy or using vaccines to prevent infections. Most importantly, curbing the excessive and unnecessary use of antibiotics, such as for minor infections that can resolve on their own, as well as changing medical practice to prevent hospital infections,

What causes antibiotic...

 research to discover the genetic consequences of the Black Death has the potential to be hugely beneficial. Today, the threat of an epidemic on the scale of the Black Death has been largely eliminated thanks to antibiotics. But the bubonic plague continues to kill a few thousand people worldwide every year,

The past, present and...

 that they communicate with these molecules. Of course, I've also told you that one of the important things they do is to initiate pathogenicity using quorum sensing. So we What if we made these bacteria so they can't talk or they can't hear? Couldn't these be new kinds of antibiotics?

Bonnie Bassler: The...

 all of us who have been born since world war ii have spent our lives in above um largely without infectious diseases and certainly without pandemics um and for me this is personal because well world war ii after that the antibiotics came in and eliminated

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 for exactly which good bacteria a robust gut needs, but we do know that it's important for a healthy microbiome to have a variety of bacterial species. Many factors affect our microbiomes, including our environment, medications like antibiotics,

How the food you eat...

 That's a simplified example, but the tragedy of the commons plays out in the more complex systems of real life, too. The overuse of antibiotics has led to short-term gains in livestock production and in treating common illnesses,

What is the tragedy of...

 which may include either antibacterial or antiviral treatments. Treatment with antibiotics helps the body get the infection under control. As the pathogen is cleared out, the body gradually expels or absorbs fluid and dead cells.

Why is pneumonia so...

 sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important. Similarly, our ability to cure childhood cancers,

Is human evolution...

 fractured bone could be fatal the antibiotics should save her life so the young cough like this should heal very fast miro is coming round but she's totally confused