8.08.2010

If you're making a list of things that are likely to kill you, capitalism belongs right up near the top

Antibiotics: Stalemate over developing new antibiotics shuts off pipeline - chicagotribune.com

Drug companies are abandoning the antibacterial business, citing high development costs, low return on investment and, increasingly, a nearly decade-long stalemate with the Food and Drug Administration over how to bring new antibiotics to market.

Got that? No improved antibiotics because they're not profitable enough. Go bugs.

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