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I was reading about this yesterday.
I've got a science/health question, but I may have so angered AKAMonet that she may never speak to me again after the thread about naming kids.
I think the stat. in the story was that one in four of the cases no longer response to the old drug that we'd been using from the 1980s. So doctors are being directed to use a new treatment.
Why don't we still use the drug that does work for 75% of the people, and only go to the new drug in the cases of people from whom the first drug didn't work?
Is the problem with using the same medicine that works for three fourths of the people that is somehow "helps" develop more drug resistant strains? How?
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