Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant...
by Mvandenbergh on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:36AM
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>It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting.
No it isn't.
Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant...
by jdietrich on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:53AM
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Antibiotics aren't commercially valuable, which is a critical problem - drug companies have no interest in developing new antibiotics, because they won't see a return on their investment. This is one area of medicine where the problem isn't drug company profiteering, but the lack of profit.
Re:Engineered phages help teenager with antibiotic-resistant...
by Whack-kneed on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:24PM
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Perhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible.
Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.
It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting.
"Western medicine" ignores phage therapy, because growing a bunch of mud in a bowl does not bring anyone 10000% cuts. Cultivating phages still requires labor and equipment, and can be quite profitable, just not 10000% profitable, — because pretty much anyone can do it.