Cephalosporin use – Shock, horror – or is it?

Many newspaper journalists like to use the ‘Shock, horror’ tactics to get stories noticed. Increasingly, it seems that scientific journals and microbiological research workers are using a similar game to identify a risk, so I thought I would try it. We have just had European Antibiotic Awareness Day and it seemed everybody in the industry was preparing meetings, press releases etc to launch their latest findings, to keep the pressure up on the EU Commission and also other research funders. T