# The coming crisis in antibiotics

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2014
- Speaker: Ramanan Laxminarayan
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ramanan_laxminarayan_the_coming_crisis_in_antibiotics)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Antibiotic drugs save lives. But we simply use them too much — and often for non-lifesaving purposes, like treating the flu and even raising cheaper chickens. The result, says researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan, is that the drugs will stop working for everyone, as the bacteria they target grow more and more resistant. He calls on all of us (patients and doctors alike) to think of antibiotics -- and their ongoing effectiveness -- as a finite resource, and to think twice before we tap into it. It's a sobering look at how global medical trends can strike home.

## Lectures

1. [The coming crisis in antibiotics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ramanan_laxminarayan_the_coming_crisis_in_antibiotics/3e703fadb67f), 15 min (TED's player)