b) Professor of psychiatry at research university, married to chief of dep't of Global Public Health. You and I would never get this.
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My mom used to work in cancer research; got access to a lot of cutting edge/experimental treatment. Cancer took 20 years to kill her.
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Replying to @St_Rev
But phage therapy isn't new. It's just Not Invented Here, and regulatory structure in the US makes it nearly impossible to use legally.
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IIRC it was around before antibiotics, but antibiotics were more convenient and humans can't resist brute force solutions.
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Antibiotics are amazing. But phage therapy is, to 99.99% accuracy, *literally illegal*.
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Which is a huge shame, they could have been working on phage therapy in parallel for when antibiotic resistance rendered antibiotics useless
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Read the original story. They had to beg FDA for an "emergency investigational new drug application". Phages aren't drugs, is the thing.
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FDA has a very long, ultra-expensive process for approving drugs: specific, well-defined chemical compounds. Phages are viruses.
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Different bacteria are infected by different phages. They also co-evolve in an arms race; today's phages won't work on tomorrow's infection.
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Typical preparations will be a mix of mostly uncharacterized phages. FDA has no frame for this.
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