Medical Profession Suffers from International Conflict

Dr. Chukuka Enwemeka, Dean of the University of Wisconsin's College of Health Sciences in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has discovered phototherapy with blue light can destroy the super bug that prevents antibiotics from killing staph infections from methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Blue light has been shown to kill more than 90 percent of two strains of MRSA, and repeat treatments have killed 100 percent.

     According to Dr. Enwemeka, "phototherapy has been around for decades." Why has it taken until relatively recently for this therapy to be used more frequently? Western scientists were suspicious, Dr. Enwemeka said, because "Much of the research on phototherapy started in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Cold War."