Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
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Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#2This is the part of the article I most like:
“You don’t really have much choice,” said Dr. Azza Elemam, an infectious-disease specialist in Louisville, Ky. “If a person has a life-threatening infection, you have to take a risk of causing damage to the kidney.”
Such a tradeoff confronted Kimberly Dozier, a CBS News correspondent who developed an Acinetobacter infection after being injured by a car bomb in 2006 while on assignment in Iraq. After two weeks on colistin, Ms. Dozier’s kidneys began to fail, she recounted in her book, “Breathing the Fire.”
Rejecting one doctor’s advice to go on dialysis and seek a kidney transplant, Ms. Dozier stopped taking the antibiotic to save her kidneys. She eventually recovered from the infection.
Of course, I'm highly biased in that regard. :-)
Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#3At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#4At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
I'm just waiting for people to start reporting ghastly unexpected side effects.
(My eyelashes seem to be getting longer as a consequence of getting myself healthier. But I can't imagine anyone wanting me to say "Just spend 10 years working on your basic health instead of using this stuff". It's really not hip to be square.)
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#5At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
That's actually a drug originally developed for glaucoma. The eyelash-growing part was a side-effect.
Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#6At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
I'm just waiting for people to start reporting ghastly unexpected side effects. (My eyelashes seem to be getting longer as a consequence of getting myself healthier. But I can't imagine anyone wanting me to say "Just spend 10 years working on your basic health instead of using this stuff". It's really not hip to be square.)
Give it 20 years and we'll know for certain.
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#7This is a disaster in slow motion. It is a few years old, but Betrayal of Trust is still an excellent overview of the problem: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786884401?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#8At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
While the eyebrow example is wrong, let's assume that the gist was correct.
In general, folks tend to produce things that other people are willing to pay for. Why should pharma be any different? And why is this wrong?
You want more drugs that save peoples lives? Great! So do I. Here's how we do it.
Make it possible for folks to get rich on drugs that save people's lives. Note - cost controls won't do it (unless we're talking about controlling regulatory costs).
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#9This article is scary.
To me it seems that we are just creating more powerful strains of various bacteria with our use of anti-biotics.
May be it is time we need to look at alternate ways to enhance our immunity so that we are not that much susceptible to bacterial (or virus) infection.
May be alternative medicine or Michael Pollan way of eating.
Any ideas?
Re: Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics
#10This is the part of the article I most like: “You don’t really have much choice,” said Dr. Azza Elemam, an infectious-disease specialist in Louisville, Ky. “If a person has a life-threatening infection, you have to take a risk of causing damage to the kidney.” Such a tradeoff confronted Kimberly Dozier, a CBS News correspondent who developed an Acinetobacter infection after being injured by a car bomb in 2006 while o…
"Of course, I'm highly biased in that regard."
This prompted me to look at your info and now reading your website (http://www.healthgazelle.com/) and I am pleased, to say the least.
I added my comment above (or below where ever it appears) without reading your website.