One alternative to antibiotics that may work, but will have a tremendous difficulty in clearing the regulatory burden for approving new drugs and medical proced

One alternative to antibiotics that may work, but will have a tremendous difficulty in clearing the regulatory burden for approving new drugs and medical procedures, is bacteriophage therapy.[1] Nobody's going to fund or approve this in the West anytime soon: - phage therapists often use cocktails of phages to treat their patient. This type of treatment isn't even on the FDA's map - it even takes years for compounds of conventional drugs to be approved. - phage therapists often prepare customized phage cultures to treat a specific patient's infection. The FDA would likely view this a a crime and prosecute anyone trying it. - phage therapies have been around for over 100 years and are likely unpatentable. No drug company will fund R&D on the technique and no venture capitalist will fund a scrappy startup. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy