Antibiotics - The Perfect Storm

We need new antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant bacteria. But the marketplace, the structure of the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, and difficult science are conspiring to deny us the products we need. This blog will present perspectives and developments in the fight for new antibiotics.

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Back to the Future

I want to return to my favorite topic, antibiotics, viewed through the lens of the covid-19 pandemic. Of course, as is probably true f...

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

The Keystone Cops vs. Coronavirus

It sounds like the US Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr. Azar (ex-lobbyist ...

Sunday, May 3, 2020

What Have We Learned?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana). Never let a good crisis go to waste. (Churchill?, Eman...

Thursday, April 23, 2020

To BARDA with Love

Yesterday we were confronted with the news that Rick Bright, the director, Biomedical Advanced Research Authority (BARDA) and Deputy A...

Monday, April 20, 2020

What Happened to the CDC?

Last week, Tom Frieden, the former Director of the US Centers for Disease Control in the Obama administration, wrote an editorial in th...

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Covid-19 - The US Debacle (Part 2)

In spite of study after study and the writings of expert after expert over the last 25 years, we, as a society, have failed to provide fo...

Monday, April 6, 2020

Vaccines and Therapies for Coronavirus

I thought that this would be a good time to review the various vaccines and therapies being studied to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In...

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