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show first aired April 21, 2005
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This week on The Health Show: The social lives of bacteria might provide opportunities for new antibiotics, we'll get the rundown on sciatica, and hear about a new type of house for senior citizens.
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The social lives of bacteria
When antibiotics first came on the scene it looked like humans had gained the upper hand on bacteria once and for all. Well, it turns out we had won a significant battle, but the war was far from over. In recent decades, bacteria have rapidly acquired resistance to antibiotics. Just this month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that a form of staph bacteria resistant to all but the strongest antibiotics has become surprisingly common. And to make matters worse, the supply of new antibiotics is drying up. As the Health Show's Greg Dahlmann reports, that’s pushing researchers to approach bacteria in new ways.
Staph aureus is just one example of a chatty microbe. Photo: CDC
What sciatica is and isn't
Conventional wisdom says that if you're not sure whether or not you've ever suffered from sciatica... you haven't! Here to talk about this big pain in the back and leg is Dr. Grant Cooper, a physician at New York Presbyterian and the University Hospitals of Columbia and Cornell.
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A new house for older people
In the southern Dutch city of Heerlen, there is a house specially designed to make independent living possible for people who are at a very advanced age. Corine van Berlo, of the Smart Home Association, recently gave Radio Netherlands' Thijs Westerbeek a tour of the home -- and used a little trick to open the door.
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