entertainment -WSS

entertainment

author：comprehensive 2025-10-02 23:45:40 - browse：72

A person reaching for a bottle of lipitor. -- first opinion coverage from STAT — John Moore/Getty Images

The antibiotics crisis is a silent pandemic that threatens to knock modern society back into the medieval age of therapeutic leaches and serum therapy. A world where an accidental scratch in the rose garden can kill.

Why is the supply of new antibiotics so thin, and growing thinner? A high-profile Wall Street Journal article recently highlighted what everyone knows: There is huge need but no market demand.

There are many interrelated causes. Doctors prefer to keep novel antibiotics in reserve, as a last-resort option, limiting sales volumes. Insurance companies like novel antibiotics that prevent costly ICU stays, but they’re used to the cheap price of older generics and balk at any price that allows recoupment of the full cost of development. Low prices and small volumes are a great recipe for insolvency as Achaogen’s experience showed.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Wildfire smoke exposes gaps in outdoor worker protections
Next article： How Vertex's cystic fibrosis drug is changing patients' lives

Wikipedia

explore

WSS

Medical student insurance fails on mental health care coverage

Thermo Fisher plant for manufacturing gene therapies to expand

John Green on his newest strategy for fighting tuberculosis

It's been 20 years since Dolly the sheep. Where's my clone?

As AI in medicine takes off, can 'human in the loop' prevent harm?

First U.S. drug developed to treat liver disease MASH is approved

focus

entertainment

knowledge

Psychedelics group wrestles with new pharma identity

Medical student insurance fails on mental health care coverage

Apple is now the first public company to be valued at $3 trillion

R.J. Reynolds sues to protect 'crisp' cigs from California flavor ban

Medicare proposal to cover medical devices draws a mixed reaction

Steward Health Care Massachusetts hospitals face fiscal disaster

Dobbs anniversary: the lost opportunity of abortion as health care

Readout LOUD podcast: possible new ALS drug, artificial wombs

How to save PrEP access — and even expand it

Male and female sex labels in research insufficient, scientists say

hotspot

Experts study whether long Covid risk adds up with each reinfection

John Green on his newest strategy for fighting tuberculosis

Second xenotransplant done with gene

President Biden's budget: Here's what you might have missed

Thermo Fisher plant for manufacturing gene therapies to expand

Boston's new lab space is opening empty

explore

Wikipedia

explore

leisure time