Creating a new drugs: Taking a Leap
Finding or making effective new drugs is a challenge in and of itself. But aside from complicating matters further, perfectly good drugs sometimes simply stop working. More often than not, these are antibiotics drugs used to treat bacterial of fungal infections. It is true that major strides have been made in the past century in scientists quest to treat infections diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and other microbes such as parasites. Humans increased lifespan during the past hundred years is due largely to the fact that we succumb to infection far less frequently today thanĀ people
did 50 or 100 years ago.