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> Phage therapy is a blind spot for Western medicine. It's a new category of drug It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and co
by altfredd 7y ago
> Phage therapy is a blind spot for Western medicine. It's a new category of drug
It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting.
"Western medicine" ignores phage therapy, because growing a bunch of mud in a bowl does not bring anyone 10000% cuts. Cultivating phages still requires labor and equipment, and can be quite profitable, just not 10000% profitable, — because pretty much anyone can do it.
- Mvandenbergh 7y ago>It is a branch of traditional medicine, approximately 100000 years old and counting. No it isn't.
- jdietrich 7y agoAntibiotics aren't commercially valuable, which is a critical problem - drug companies have no interest in developing new antibiotics, because they won't see a return on their investment. This is one area of medicine where the problem isn't drug company profiteering, but the lack of profit. https://www.idsociety.org/10x20/ https://www.idsociety.org/10x20/
- Whack-kneed 7y agoPerhaps not, but the market for industrial antibiotics in everything from cattle-feed to shredded-cheese is huge and begs if not deservesdeserves to be taxed to make page therapy economically feasible. Unless you have another approach to fighting antibiotic resistant infections.