Ocupation: Author
Life: b. December 8, 1951
Birthday: December 8
As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.
topic: Two, People, Choices, Antidepressants, Antibiotics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Companies, New Yorkers