Sulfa was first miracle drug [video 60min]

Thomas Hager, author of The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug, examines bacterial diseases and wartime medical care in the 1930s. He chronicles experiments, medicinal discoveries, and drug patents during World War II and details the challenges in creating antibiotics for bacterial threats of the 21st century. Hager is a correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association, a former director of the University of Oregon Press, and the author of Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, and Aging Well. This event was hosted by the University of Oregon.