Gonorrhea now among "superbugs" resistant to common antibiotics.

We're running out of options for treating gonorrhea, and nobody's working on a new class of drugs to kick in when our last option no longer works:

http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/04/gonorrhea-now-among-superbugs-resistant.html

I can't remember who I got this from
either Vonnegut or Tom Robbins

but

Once man has destroyed itself (and most other species)
with Nuclear Weapons ( or climate change)
only two organisms will survive
Gonorrhea and the cockroach,
Then the cockroaches get the clap.......

bacteria is the most abundant life form on the planet and was here long before us. Be here long after us too.

We knew this was coming, that we'd get behind the curve and the bugs would adapt faster than we could keep up. When our work horse antibiotics become ineffective, it'll be pre-1928 again. It's like standing in a padded room and screaming - no one can hear us.

...over-prescribing antibiotics. But I doubt he could have foreseen just how over-prescibed they'd be, and what he said didn't register with our family at the time. Over the years I've gone to docs who prescibed antibiotics (or rather their receptionists did) when I called in (didn't need to come in) -- and I was grateful, thinking it was a good thing.

Another big pharm thing that ticks me off: the non-negotiating for medicare meds. It's still April and my mom is already in the doughnut where she pays full price. I picked up her meds yesterday: $934 for (at most) a month's worth. Just one of the meds cost $695 for a 28-day supply. It's the only drug on the market that grows new bone so I guess they can charge whatever they want.