Antibiotics

The Perfect Storm

David M. Shlaes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

106 Seiten

2014
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-007-9532-7 (ISBN)

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Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs. As a class, they are one of the only ones that actually cure disease as opposed to most drugs that only help relieve symptoms or control disease. Since bacteria that cause serious disease in humans are becoming more and more resistant to the antibiotics we have today, and because they will ultimately become resistant to any antibiotic that we use for treatment or for anything else, we need a steady supply of new antibiotics active against any resistant bacteria that arise. However, the antibiotics marketplace is no longer attractive for large pharmaceutical companies, the costs of development are skyrocketing because of ever more stringent requirements by the regulatory agencies, and finding new antibiotics active against resistant strains is getting harder and harder. These forces are all combining to deny us these miracle drugs when we need them the most. I provide a number of possible paths to shelter from this perfect storm.

1 The Perfect Storm.- 2 The Miracle.- 3 Resistance – The miracle is fading.- 4 The FDA – We need them, but they have become part of the problem.- 5 Europe.- 6 The Pharmaceutical Industry – after a glorious history, the industry is now struggling on all fronts.- 7 Modest Proposals.- 8 Conclusions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.10.2014
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 106 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	94-007-9532-7 / 9400795327
ISBN-13	978-94-007-9532-7 / 9789400795327
Zustand	Neuware