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> This is why all the major pharmaceutical companies have shut down their antibiotic divisions. No, but the other side of it is that for the money that they ha
by conistonwater 11y ago
> This is why all the major pharmaceutical companies have shut down their antibiotic divisions.
No, but the other side of it is that for the money that they had invested, before shutting it down, they got very little at all. That is the other explanation here — that they invested money into antibiotics research and simply couldn't make it work. E.g., http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=antibiotics http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/?s=antibiotics
- danieltillett 11y agoYes they had invested money and they could not make any money out of antibiotics for the reasons I listed. This is why they shut them down. There is some evidence that some of these divisions weren’t very good at finding new drugs, but even when they were found they weren’t brought through to market because there was no profit.
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