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Vedanta Biosciences is developing its microbiome therapy with support from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. Under terms of that contract, the positive Phase 2 results in preventing recurrent C. diff infection trigger a $23.8 million payment.
We haven't had great ones coming in the pipeline. it takes 2 to 3 billion dollars to make one of these antibiotics. when they come the companies are not going to profit for this. furthermore, the government is pumping more money to hopefully in the next few years we'll have a better outcome. you mentioned there are some things that we can do as patients as well. for example, not going to the hospital not only does it clog lines if you are going for something that's not a serious ailment but you can also pick up something and get a serious illness while you are there. >> that's an excellent p...
You can. hand wash. ask your doctor should i get this antibiotic. >> when people go to a hospital they expect that there's communication between the doctors, the nurses and the pharmacy and the people that are making these medicines and we saw in the survey there's no communication going on. so if i have pneumonia, if i have c.difficile as you are talking about, if i have some essential infection and the doctor says to me there's no antibiotic first-line antibiotic to treat this because the drug companies aren't making a profit what are we doing in this country to make that better? >> that's a...
If you get a complaint from patients, it is lack of sleep and exactly the way you present it. it is not so much the c. difficile infection which we'll talk about next week or the falls from the patient, you see the patient the next day and they are exhausted, how do you heal? when you sleep, whether after surgery or medical issues and hospitals are recognizing this and there is a study from annals of internal medicine and see electronic noises are even worse than the human noises. coming from harvard and that is really important. if you look at a hospital two decades ago, eric, it was quiet an...
Of the risk factors for colon cancer and if you had it 7 to 8 years you are at high risk, because the mucosa gets eroded and it causes mutation and it gets out of cycle and the cells can come cancerous and if you have a risk of colon cancer and colitis, you are at high risk and i advocate screening at the age of 40, and, you may have ulcerative colitis and you may have blood in the stool and, recognize, it and, as you said, the symptoms, they can wax and wane and it will get better and it comes back again and we see it in a lot in the hospital as a result of use of antibiotics and the treatmen...