Opinion: Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal

Natalie Ma knows a lot about antibiotics. She’s familiar with the consequences of antibiotic resistance and the side effects of these essential drugs from her work at Felix Biotechnology, the biotherapeutics company she co-founded. So it was particularly daunting when what she thought was a run-of-the-mill urinary tract infection wasn’t abated by the standard antibiotics.

She ultimately endured a yearlong series of antibiotic treatments that left her with long-term side effects. Ma joins the “First Opinion Podcast” this week to talk about her experience, the reality of antibiotic side effects and bacterial resistance to these drugs, and how researchers are searching for new antibacterial treatments that are effective and safe.

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