Pharmaceutical Industry – It’s Role in Defining illness

The pharmaceutical industry develops, manufactures, and sells drugs. Defining illness is not its mission. Generally, the medications produced by drug companies target diseases that have been defined previously by the medical profession. However, there are several indirect ways in which the industry contributes to the definition of illness. Are these contributions beneficial to society and…

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Drug Resistance

Drug resistance is the emerging and most pressing concern of the day. In simple words, Drug resistance suggests the ability of the pathogens (mostly bacteria) to infect and grow even in the presence of an antimicrobial agent used or the ineffectiveness of the drug to target and prevent the infection by any microbe. Many antibiotics…

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