Jerome Groopman from the New Yorker writes on how these bugs may be more of a threat than MRSA.
Also find out why antimicrobials are hitting a dead end with pharmaceutical companies:
Drug companies are looking for blockbuster therapies that must be taken daily for decades, drugs like Lipitor, for high cholesterol, or Zyprexa, for psychiatric disorders, used by millions of people and generating many billions of dollars each year. Antibiotics are used to treat infections, and are therefore prescribed only for days or weeks.
Why worry about superbugs when you have all those kids with ADHD to treat?
There’s no profit in antimicrobials and vaccines. In the face of increasingly drug-resistant bacteria, what we have now is basically it for the foreseeable future. Scary.
(via Buckeye Surgeon)
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Congress may need to step in on this one. Instead of taxing the billions of dollars the oil companies are making on the penny profit they make on each gallon, how bout congress stops the ridiculous amount of advertising pharmaceutical companies spend and mandate the companies to start producing drugs that actually improve Americans health. I have heard about this problem for over three years now, and its a sad tale that nothing has been done about it. In that period how many new ED drugs hit the market, and how many new antibiotics hit the market? Something needs to be done.
So basically, antimicrobials are the primary care of drugs; everyone knows they’re needed but nobody is willing to pay to fix the problem.
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