The supply of new antibiotics has dried up for several reasons, but a major one is that drugs companies see greater profits in medicines that treat chronic conditions, such as heart disease, which patients must take for years or even decades. "There is a broken market model for making new antibiotics," Davies told the MPs.I do not understand this. If current anti-biotics all stop working, there will be a large, very high demand for the last antibiotics that still work. Sounds like big profits to me. Isn’t that incentive enough to develop new ones?
Pandemic is certainly a concern that everyone should at least consider.
Also consider that the best way to avoid illness in a pandemic is to STAY HOME.
Do you have the ability to stay home for a month or six weeks without going out for ANYTHING?
The customer, the government, won’t pay for expensive drugs. New drugs are expensive. Thus, no R&D gets thrown into that rat hole.
Think of a drug that costs billions in r and d to get to market. Once you get it to market lawyers all over the world will start looking for reasons to sue you over it. You finally release it. Would you rather it be a drug someone takes for 7-14 days or for 40 years?
-——the use of catheters increases the chances of bugs entering the bloodstream-——
The use of catheters is perhaps a leading contributor to massive incurable infection. The catheter is routinely part of treatment and makes a hospital stay easier for both patient and staff. The insertion is routine and often the task of a person who mostly does only that.
A trivial distraction during the insertion process can result in very minor lapse is sterile procedure. The result is trivial infection in the urinary tract. The distraction or lack of concentration can be the result of doing the same thing over and over and over and a short cut becomes routine and fatal.
Once there, growth occurs and perhaps months later, the infection leaves the bladder and moves to other locations. The infection then becomes systemic and very very fatal. The death can be weeks or months after the hospital stay and thus not seemingly related to the hospital stay and catherization.
I would like to see mortality statistics related to infection ultimately traced back to catherization. I’m sure they are supressed.
Life poses ‘apocalyptic’ threat . . . .
Nature poses ‘apocalyptic’ threat . . . .
Mortality poses ‘apocalyptic’ threat . . . .
God’s universe poses ‘apocalyptic’ threat . . . .