"Benefits of Bleach: A Hospital Adopts a Grandmother’s Preferred Germ Killer"
As the infection-control czar of the Mount Sinai Health System, Brian Koll, MD, often turns to federal and state health authorities, as well as researchers and colleagues, for the latest on controlling antibiotic-resistant germs. Dr. Koll, who is also a professor of infectious disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has an additional resource in his quest to eradicate superbugs in his seven-hospital system: his grandmother Dora. Although she has been dead 28 years, Dr. Koll says he relies on her advice every day. Learn more.