EMBLAVEO (AZTREONAM+AVIBACTAM) Microbiology Testing for MDR Pathogens

The discussion emphasizes challenges in clinical antibiotic trials which failed to effectively target multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens. It advocates for using rapid PCR diagnostics to streamline trials, ensuring focus on pathogens of concern, and calls for regulatory adaptations to enhance study design and antibiotic testing efficacy. Continue reading EMBLAVEO (AZTREONAM+AVIBACTAM) Microbiology Testing for MDR Pathogens

JOURNAL BUSINESS vs EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT

New medical and science journals pop up in our mailbox on a biweekly basis.  Offers to join as Editor, solicitation for articles based on past publications, invitations for subject reviews come as unsolicited emails.  Medical publication houses, old and new, are expanding, adding more and more subspecialties to their established Continue reading JOURNAL BUSINESS vs EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT

Connections: From Mima/Herellea to Acinetobacter to the Double Helix to Lwoff to … CRAB

There once was a Scientific American section authored by science historian James Burke called ‘Connections”. In it James Burke, a true renaissance man, showed us how an ‘internet’ of serendipitous encounters, connections between persons, places and events led to advances in science. His delightful tours through history are testimony to Continue reading Connections: From Mima/Herellea to Acinetobacter to the Double Helix to Lwoff to … CRAB