First discovery in United States of colistin resistance in a human E. coli infection

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I trust modern medicine to keep finding answers, simply because they earn megatruvkloads full of cash for doing it. Long live greed n the corporate machine.


I think ill be kay

http://saypeople.com/2013/09/10/list...ed-since-2000/

There was a time, where ~4 new antibiotics / year were launched. Development of new Antibiotics is deemed unprofitable by these companies and therefore nearly - or in many cases absolutely stopped the research of new Antibiotics.
And that's often due to the problems to get new Antibiotics through the approval process.



http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.co...130209.article

I think, that rampart bureaucracy will be dramatically cut down, when the people will die in droves from absolutely resistant bacteria.

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http://saypeople.com/2013/09/10/list...ed-since-2000/

There was a time, where ~4 new antibiotics / year were launched. Development of new Antibiotics is deemed unprofitable by these companies and therefore nearly - or in many cases absolutely stopped the research of new Antibiotics.
And that's often due to the problems to get new Antibiotics through the approval process.



http://www.pharmaceutical-journal.co...130209.article

I think, that rampart bureaucracy will be dramatically cut down, when the people will die in droves from absolutely resistant bacteria.

from everything ive read on the subject, bacteria will win the arms race vs antibiotics.

unlike antivirals, antibiotics are essentially poisons, so like treating cancer with chemo, there comes a point when the human will die before the disease.

we need a new tech rather than a better old tech.

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unlike antivirals, antibiotics are essentially poisons, so like treating cancer with chemo, there comes a point when the human will die before the disease.

No, antibiotics are very specific poisons that target specific biological processes that are present in bacteria, but not in human cells (ideally anyway).

For example, beta-lactam antibiotics (penicillin, etc.) mess with a layer in the bacteria cell wall, preventing them from being able to divide. The walls of human cells are constructed differently, so this has no effect on them.

This specificity results in there often being fairly straightforward adaptations to counter them (e.g. excreting beta-lactamases), coupled with bacteria's rapid reproduction rate, means those adaptations show up pretty quickly, especially with incautious use.

Chemotherapy has to use more generalized poisons, as you're dealing with what are essentially run-amok human cells, which are still fairly similar (much more so than bacteria) to the cells making up the rest of the body, so the poisons you target the cancer with are, by necessity, also toxic to the rest of the body to some degree.