ALLPHASE PHARMA – THE FIRST 100 BLOG POSTS

After the first 100 blogs, it is appropriate to reflect on reader preferences.  When I arbitrarily select a topic, it is not always clear whether what interests me also interests you. Since its start 1½ years ago, this blog has grown steadily in readership.  So we did a few things right Continue reading ALLPHASE PHARMA – THE FIRST 100 BLOG POSTS

Nitrofurantoin – An Old Drug Resurrected Needs Prospective Scrutiny

When older drugs get reintroduced into clinical practice because pathogens have developed resistance to newer agents, it comes at the price of uncertainty. Often, older drugs were approved based on rather limited data, often considered incomplete by today’s standards.  Take colistin as an example: approved in the early 60ies, we still Continue reading Nitrofurantoin – An Old Drug Resurrected Needs Prospective Scrutiny

A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin

Fosfomycin Who would have thought that a drug that has been around since 1969 [2] could become eligible for QIDP status in 2015? Well, Zavante Therapeutics recently garnered the coveted QIDP designation for fosfomycin IV. This formulation has been available in Europe for a quite some time but not in the Continue reading A Renaissance for Old Drugs: Fosfomycin and Colistin