"Open Source" Drug Development Company Launched 140
First time accepted submitter awjourn writes "During his years working in pharma R&D, Tomasz Sablinski was frustrated by the industry's need for secrecy and its utter inability to design patient-friendly drug trials. So he founded Transparency Life Sciences, a company that's developing three drugs based on input from patients and physicians, who log onto the company's site and voice their opinions about how drugs should be designed and tested."
"Patients and Physicians" (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's leave drug design to the chemists and biologists who are actually qualified to do such work. I want to drive over bridges designed by civil engineers, not drivers and city planners.
May we have some new antibiotics? PLEASE????? (Score:5, Interesting)
By FAR the biggest need for drugs we have is for new antibiotics.
I'd be willing to support, with my own money, antibiotic development efforts. I'd support use of public money for antibiotic development.
In the USA, some 90,000 people die every year due to antibiotic resistant infections and that number is growing every year. In 1992, that number was 13,000.
To put this in perspective, we get 30x the deaths every year from antibiotic resistance than was inflicted on us by the 9/11 attacks. Every year.
Where is our war on antibiotic resistant bugs? Where are the billions spent to combat this 30x greater (actually higher, because we don't have 9/11-scale attacks every year) threat to our lives?
Best,
--PeterM
Re:May we have some new antibiotics? PLEASE????? (Score:5, Interesting)
By FAR the biggest need for drugs we have is for new antibiotics.
Nope. That's just a treadmill-like arms race. What you want are bacteriophages [wikipedia.org].