Health Report - Separate stories podcast Teaching kids about superbugs
Feb 20, 2026
Alison Holmes, Professor of Infectious Diseases and leader of the Fleming Initiative at Imperial College London, champions antimicrobial resistance education. She discusses teaching children about superbugs in schools. The conversation covers empowering kids to drive change, prevention strategies like vaccination and hygiene, and adapting programs for low-resource and farming contexts.
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Large Danish Study Finds No Increased Mortality With MHT
- A large Danish observational study found menopause hormone therapy (MHT) did not increase overall mortality in lower-risk women.
- The study followed ~876,000 women from age 45 for 14 years; mean MHT duration was only 1.7 years and lacked data on smoking and BMI.
Antibiotic Resistance Risks Modern Medical Advances
- Antibiotic resistance threatens modern medicine beyond simple infections.
- Alison Holmes warns resistance could undo advances like immunotherapy, transplantation and safe surgery because vulnerable patients would face untreatable infections.
Australian CDC Flags Rising Multi Resistant Organisms
- Australia shows rising multi-resistant organisms and poor hospital prescribing appropriateness.
- The new Australian CDC report flags increases in resistance despite relatively better national performance, with person-to-person spread via mobile genetic elements in the gut.