© 2024 Ideastream Public Media

1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(216) 916-6100 | (877) 399-3307

WKSU is a public media service licensed to Kent State University and operated by Ideastream Public Media.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Science Cafe: The Rise of the Superbug

science_cafe.png.jpg
science_cafe.png.jpg

Every year, nearly 100,000 people die from infections they pick up in a place that's supposed to make them healthy: their hospital. Our health care facilities have become breeding grounds for drug resistant bacteria--and those super bugs are making their way into the community. On the Sound of Ideas®, the science of identifying and combating the public health threat that lives on your doctor's stethoscope. Monday morning at 9. Dr. Robert Bonomo, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Dr. Louis B. Rice, Chief, Medical Service Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center