BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lethal Dose, Chewing Tobacco, Passive Smoking
18 Mar 2016
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Nosocomial infection infection acquired from a hospital, these infections tend to be quite nasty. Lucien bouchard a political figure in canada, acquired necrotizing fasciitis and lost his leg: difficile is another bad one. This is becoming more and more of a problem. Most antibiotics we"ve discovered today were discovered in the 40s, 50s and 60s. They"re basically commodity chemicals now small profit margins and large production. Most big pharma companies are out of the business. Mostly small biotech companies that look for them now, most fail. Takes a lot of money to keep pharma companies running. Discovery then vs. now takes a lot longer between discovery and marketing, Sales will not recover the research costs and this is because of clinical trials, not r&d. Regulations are important though, but it"s almost a bit over regulated in the pharmaceutical industry now and we"re paying the price for in now.
