Who's Working On New Antibiotics? Nobody Big.
"Superbugs" Are Lurking to Eat Our Tender Flesh..
All Antibiotics Are Becoming Impotent...
We Desperately Need
New Antibiotics....
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| I'm coming to getcha. |
So what Big Pharma company has the next super antibiotic in the pipeline
to save us from the coming germopocalypse?
Basically NONE
The "Plutocrat's Paper" Forbes Magazine put it this way:
Big Pharma has basically given up on antibiotics. It’s not that the risks are too high, it is that the rewards are too low. New antibiotics are being introduced. But their sales are a tiny fraction of sales in other drug classes.
A Headline Last Week
Novartis joins the Big Pharma exodus out of antibiotics, dumping research
Big Pharma started bailing on antibiotics research years ago, discouraged by the notable absence of profits. That left R&D to a small group of biotechs looking to come up with new approaches that could be used as drug-resistance become increasingly common.
Thing is, the really profitable new drugs are those you have to take and take and take, ideally for the rest of your life. Now that's a dependable revenue stream.
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| Let us spend our lives together. |
(A conspiracy of heart docs and Big Pharma are trying to keep me taking Xarelto (Janssen Pharmaceuticals) forever, even though the treated condition - atrial fibrillation - has been gone for a year. I'm gonna go rogue and quit them soon. If I keel over, well it's my own fault.)
Most of the companies working on new antibiotics are small new startups like this one. May the force be with them. There are many pipeline drugs, but money (absence of) can plug up the pipe.
I told you I was reading some newsletters from the Big Pharma. It's downright scary.
Incensed? Write your Congressman. Or write your aunt Matilda. That seems to get the same results.
OR JUST WAIT FOR THE CHINESE TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
* (Sing the above to the tune, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" or "Battle Hymn of the Republic")
** Germ cartoon credit
*** Pill bottles credit
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