Showing posts with label antibiotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antibiotics. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The broken market for antibiotics, continued

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  Not only is the market for new antibiotics broken, companies that explore them are going broke. Here's a story from the WSJ: The World...
Monday, December 26, 2022

The once and future Pasteur Act to incentivize antibiotic discovery and development

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It doesn't look like Congress is going to act this year to pass the Pasteur Act. Here's the NY Times: Can a Federally Funded ‘Netfli...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Preparing for a drug-resistant bacteria pandemic---vaccines and challenge trials

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  Axel Ockenfels recently alerted me that "The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina has established a working group to analyz...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

More on the looming shortage of new antibiotics

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 From Medpage Today: Superbugs Are Getting Stronger— Our defenses are getting weaker   by David Thomas, MS, and Emily Wheeler  " There ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Subscription as an advanced market commitment for new antibiotics

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  Axel Ockenfels points me to the following discussion of a subscription model for antibiotics: governments would guarantee that they would ...
Saturday, March 5, 2022

Antibiotic discovery and development (from caves, to clinical trials to clinics)

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 The development of antibiotics is in the hands of big pharmaceutical companies, which can manage and afford large scale clinical trials of ...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The future pandemic that has already started making an appearance

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I never expected the Covid pandemic: I was expecting a different one, coming not from a virus but from an antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  Th...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

The economics of antibiotics

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Penicillin changed the world, it gave us a weapon against disease causing bacteria. Other antibiotics followed. But then evolution changed ...