Antibiotics The Perfect Storm /

• Main Author: Shlaes, David M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Drug interactions.; Toxicology.; Biotechnology.; Pharmacy.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Drug Resistance.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9057-7

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.