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News
2024
The Promise of Bacteriophage Therapy to Fight Drug-Resistant Superbugs
June 27, 2024 | MedPage Today
Superbugs Pose a Deadly Threat to Cystic Fibrosis Patients
May 14, 2024 | MedPage Today
Phage therapy: Researchers sharpen another arrow in the quiver against antibiotic resistance
Feb 20, 2024 | StatNews
A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
Feb 14, 2024 | WIRED
The Future Congress opens with a full house.
Jan 14, 2024 | El Mercurio
2023
Wife relies on the natural enemy of bacteria to rescue her husband from a life-threatening disease
Dec 14, 2023 | Upworthy
No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to a natural enemy of bacteria to save her husband’s life
Dec 06, 2023 | CNN Health
How naturally occurring viruses could help treat superbug infections (watch full episode)
Dec 05, 2023 | CNN
CDC Director: Threat of respiratory illnesses underway
Dec 04, 2023 | CNN
CNN's 'Vital Signs' explores the prospects of phage therapy to treat drug-resistant superbugs
Nov 30, 2023 | PR Newswire
Jumbo phages are active against extensively-drug-resistant eyedrop-associated Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
May 8, 2023 | bioRxiv
Western firms are becoming interested in a Soviet medicine
“Phage therapy” aims to use viruses to cure bacterial infections
May 3, 2023 | The Economist
Antimicrobial Resistance: Examining an Emerging Public Health Threat
Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing - April 28, 2023
Phage Against the Routine: Resistant Acinetobacter
Superbugs & You - February 28, 2023
Babbage: How to battle superbugs with viruses
Babbage from The Economist - May 17, 2023
In the War on Bacteria, It's Time to Call in the Phages
WIRED - April 3, 2023
2022
Best Life: Bacteria eating virus
Action News 5 - December 20, 2022
The Value of the Patient Voice: A Review of Salt in My Soul by Mallory Smith
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics - November 11, 2022
Dr. Saima Aslam on: Phage Hunt
Febrile Podcast - August 29, 2022
2021
Can viruses save lives?
Biomedical Science Journal for Teens - April 2021
2020
Superbug vs. Superphage A Review of The Perfect Predator and an Interview with Dr. Chip Schooley
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - January 2020
When a Virus Is the Cure
The New Yorker, Nicola Twilley - December 14, 2020
Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us
Scientific American, David Pride - December 2020
Viruses, lords of creation-exploring the little-known viral universe
Babbage Podcast, The Economist - August 26, 2020
Bacteria-eating viruses could provide a route to stability in cystic fibrosis
Nature Outlook - July 26, 2020
2019
Viral 'Smart Bombs' Are Becoming Weapons Against Superbugs
Bloomberg Businessweek- November 18, 2019
Steffanie Strathdee: 'Phages have evolved to become perfect predators of bacteria'
THE GUARDIAN - ZOE CORBYN - JUNE 15, 2019
Genetically Modified Viruses Help Save A Patient With A 'Superbug' Infection
NPR ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - ROB STEIN - MAY 8, 2019
Could Viruses Be 'The Perfect Predator' To Fight Superbugs?
WBUR HERE AND NOW - MARCH 6, 2019
How to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs: Woman saves husband with phage therapy
TODAY - A. PAWLOWSKI - MARCH 1, 2019
2017
Superbugs Are Nearly Impossible to Fight. This Last-Resort Medical Treatment Offers Hope
TIME MAGAZINE- ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN - DECEMBER 18, 2017
How Sewage Saved My Husband's Life from a Superbug
TEDXNASHVILLE - STEFFANIE STRATHDEE - PUBLISHED OCTOBER 17, 2017
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren't Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment.
MOTHER JONES - MARYN MCKENNA - MAY/JUNE 2018 ISSUE
Her Husband Was Dying From A Superbug. She Turned To Sewer Viruses Collected By The Navy.
BUZZFEED - AZEEN GHORAYSHI - MAY 6, 2017
Sewage Saved This Man's Life. Someday It Could Save Yours.
HUFFPOST - LAUREN WEBER - MAY 11, 2017
Viruses save a man from antibiotic-resistant bacteria
THE GUARDIAN - LIZ SOCKETT - DECEMBER 24, 2017
A patient's legacy: Researchers work to make phage therapy less of a long shot
STAT NEWS - ERIC BOODMAN - NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Bacteriophage Therapy
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