From Forbes:

Concerns about microbes that develop resistance to antibiotics and health concerns about some antibiotics themselves have led to a renaissance for silver, and companies are searching for new ways to produce it to make it more effective and to apply it more broadly.

Of course, this has also led to a whole class of silver-tinged snake oil, too. Simon Silver, a professor in the department of microbiology and immunology in the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine, studies bacterial resistance to metals. (Despite his name, he studies mercury and arsenic, too.) He says of the new silver products: "There are those that are useful, those that are harmless and some that are pure garbage."

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