Pharmaceutical Imagine a world where the most common and routine operations are made all but impossible without a severe risk of death from infection. Where hip replacements, caesarean sections and bone repair are no longer viable and we are cast back 100 years to a time before antibiotics. It is a worrying thought, but such fears are becoming a real possibility. Joel Levy looks at what is being done to address the issue of antimicrobial resistance. 17 October 2016