The modern pharmaceutical industry is only about 65 years old, but in that time it has revolutionized the practice of medicine by providing the infectious disease specialist with life-saving drugs, such as sulfonamides, penicillins, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides and quinolones, and others. During the last 50 years, medications produced by the pharmaceutical industry have saved more than 1.5 million lives and $140 billion in the treatment of tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, coronary artery disease, and cerebrovascular disease alone (2). Diseases once considered killers, such as smallpox, have been eradicated; a patient's average hospital stay has been shortened, and institutional space requirements have been reduced. Read full article.
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