Friday, February 12, 2010

Pharmaceutical Companies are Chicken

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Actually, this is not a blog about the use of antibiotics and hormones in poultry. It is about the pharmaceutical industry’s risk averse ap...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Generic Antibiotics: Effective and Safe?

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Today I am going back to the FDA’s Advisory Committee (AIDAC) meeting on a new antibiotic, telithromycin (Ketek), in December, 2006. Telith...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Consolidation, de-consolidation and antibiotics.

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Over the last 30 years there has been tremendous consolidation within the pharmaceutical industry. In 2003, Karen Bush of Johnson and Johns...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Connecting the dots . . . not.

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For this blog, I was inspired by the events following the failed underwear bombing of a US bound airliner on Christmas day and research I di...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

And then there was none.

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I was contacted recently by a journalist about antibiotics in development for Gram negative infections. The subject of carbapenem resistanc...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Hope and skepticism for 2010.

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I have been reviewing recent efforts in Europe to deal with the antibiotic conundrum. I am astonished that Europe is so far ahead of the US...
Thursday, December 24, 2009

A Bittersweet End to 2009

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Here it is, Christmas eve, and I'm blogging about antibiotics. What is wrong with me? The end of this year is bittersweet for me. I h...
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