For children and adults with peanut allergies, the only therapeutic option comes from post-exposure treatment with epinephrine, such as Epipen (Mylan NV) or Auvi-q (Kaleo Inc.), to dampen the anaphylactic reaction. Even then, 100 to 150 people die from food allergies each year. Read More
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a topic that just won't go away, and for good reason. Despite the plethora of threats facing humankind, including thousands of diseases in need of therapies or cures, many scientists worry that the biggest risk of extinction comes from the deadly pathogens that exist in uneasy cohabitation on planet Earth. Tensions mounted in 2015 after the mcr-1 gene was detected on plasmids in China and Europe and were heightened last year with the first U.S. case of a patient with an infection resistant to a last-resort antibiotic. Read More
