The news on antibiotics and cellphones

Neither of the scary news stories from the past couple of weeks — about a new milestone in antibiotic resistance and new findings on the link between cancer and cellphone radiation — warrants an overreaction, although both should be taken seriously, Tabitha M. Powledge writes: "Is the antibiotic-resistance apocalypse upon us? Do cellphones cause cancer? Fraught topics, but there’s no better advice (as in so many other situations) than Douglas Adams’s: Don’t panic."

June 4, 2016

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