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May 22, 2010

Incentives for making new antibiotics: What would it take?

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Let’s play a thought experiment. Imagine that you’re a major pharmaceutical company, a public company, with shareholders that you answer to, and market analysts looking over your shoulder to see whether this quarter’s earnings are up to projections. Imagine that you want to make a new drug. Let’s make it an antibiotic, because — as [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Topics: IDSA, antibiotics, drug development
May 17, 2010

Vast increase MRSA, CA-MRSA infections among kids

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I’m on the road today and have what feels like seconds between commitments, but there’s a brand new piece of research this morning that I think you folks should know about. It’s an early-online release from Pediatrics by researchers from 3 states. It uses a database called the Pediatric Health Information Systems analyze diagnosis codes [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Topics: community
May 17, 2010

A great blog leaves the ’sphere

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Constant readers: Well, the bug finally got me, or one of its close cousins did. I’ve been on the road almost nonstop, and after a book event at University of Wisconsin last week, was felled by a violent bout of foodborne illness that was almost certainly staph — not MRSA, but the related strain of [...]
Written by Maryn McKenna
Topics: influenza