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In support of the advertising campaign by Public Health England to reduce antibiotic misuse, Professor Mark Wilcox (LIBACS - Medicine & Health), Professor Christoph Wälti (Electronic & Electrical Engineering) and Prof. Lars Jeuken (Biomedical Sciences) have appeared and given interviewed to a number of BBC programmes. In this press coverage on 23/10/2017, they discuss the diagnostic tool they are developing to allow GPs to identify within minutes if a patient is suffering from a viral or bacterial infection, to help prevent the unnecessary use of antibiotics.

  • 7.35am: BBC Radio Humberside – Lars Jeuken
  • BBC Breakfast TV: Christoph Walti
  • 11am – BBC Radio 5 Live: Lars Jeuken Listen here
  • 1.30pm BBC Yorkshire News (lead story): Christoph Walti Watch here
  • 6pm Made In Leeds TV: Christoph Walti
  • 6.30pm BBC Yorkshire news (lead story): Christoph Walti Watch here
  • 7.30pm BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Inside Out documentary programme (lead story) – full 10 minute documentary piece charting the development of the device and featuring Lord O’Neill, Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer and Helen McAuslane from Public Health England: Christoph Walti and Mark Wilcox. Watch here
  • 10.30pm BBC Yorkshire news (lead story): Christoph Walti. Watch here