Dear All, Last week I went to New York City to see one of the opening performances of Lifeline, The Musical, the world’s first musical telling the story of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, and the rise of antibiotic resistance! This was my first time seeing the production in its entirety and it did not disappoint. The timing

Dear All (Wonkish alert! Not technical but lengthy … so settle in and enjoy the ride!): Regular readers will know of my fascination with language: e.g., this 20 Feb 2020 newsletter entitled “Language Matters: CRE vs. CPE; SDD vs. I; And MDR, XDR, PDR, UDR vs. DTR.” How about that for acronymics taken to Olympian

Dear All, One of your alert co-readers (Abigail Herron) pointed out to me the currently open call for applications for the OHE (Office of Health Economics) Innovation Policy Prize, a biennial £40k prize seeking “to promote thought leadership and solution-based theories around the big questions affecting the future of our industry.” Intriguingly for the AMR community, their

Dear All, Although it seems entirely reasonable that the “Which came first?” chicken vs. egg riddle can be resolved in favor of the egg, a pair of papers in CID suggest that the answer to the parallel question of “drug vs. resistance to the drug” is changing in a way that is NOT in our favor!

Dear All, Pop culture often garbles science in the name of a good storyline but sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Let’s today consider the iconic trope of being frozen in time and coming back to life. This sort of feat is usually limited on the screen to the likes of superheroes but a

Dear All, The holidays are upon us, and this seems like a timely reason to send an update to the Movies to Discover Antibiotics By newsletter from 2020. Since sending that particular newsletter, suggestions from readers have been added to the list and I’ve also created YouTube videos exploring some of them. If you are in