Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”

Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by zeteo on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:34PM (#6599773)

>you'll buy drugs for high cholesterol the rest of your life

Not if you get killed by an infection first.

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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by mturmon on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @02:25PM (#6600629)

This humorous observation does not affect the argument, it just derails it. It's easier to make money off drugs for chronic conditions than for one-off infections.

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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by MaysonL on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @03:36PM (#6601136)

And it's sometimes easier to invent a chronic condition for a drug, than vice versa.

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Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibioti... by bad_user on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @01:00PM (#6600013)

Also many chronic diseases are autoimmune diseases, like asthma or type 1 diabetes. In such patients the immune system gets weaker when in crisis, leaving them vulnerable to infections.

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