Antibiotics The Perfect Storm /

• Main Author: Shlaes, David M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacy.; Immunology.; Drug resistance.; Pharmacology.; Biotechnology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Drug Resistance.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

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. Because bacteria that cause serious disease in humans are becoming more and more resistant to the antibiotics we have...

Table of Contents:

• 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.