For parents, it’s hard to imagine a scarier scenario than a child with an illness that won’t respond to medicine. So when a parent reads news reports about an increase in infections from “superbugs” – bacteria that have evolved to resist antibiotics – it’s easy to understand why a simple earache may have parents fearing for the worst.
Clinicians and researchers at UNC Children’s are working tirelessly to address this problem and calm those fears as much as possible. For Zachary Willis MD, it’s a personal mission. Read more >>