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16/02/2007 at 01:33 am
Hi Everyone,
This site was conceived as a means of bringing scandals to the public attention. The one which is long everdue for exposure is the antibiotics debacle, where for decades doctors have been over & misprescribing antibiotics to patients, ignoring the fact that bacteria will mutate to survice, rendering any antibacterial compound useless.
Drugs compnaies are hardly producing any new antibiotics, prefering instead to concentrate on the life-style drug cash cows i.e. statins, beta blockers and anti-immflamatories. They have totally ignored bacteriophages, because that method is time consuming and required some ‘intelligennt’ doctoring. Phages also couldn’t be patented, another reason for not pursuing that line, although, before antiboitics came along, phages were the only way to fight bacterial infections and are still currently used as medication of choice by thousands of Georgians and other former Soviet Union countries.
No documentation exists to show phages are harmful to humans, something which the 80+ years of use in Georgia would surely have exposed. Even the Societ Union would not be able to suppress this sort of news, if that were the case.
So, why are our governments pussy-footing around, trying to reinvent the wheel, regarding phage therapy? If, as is commonly admitted, the regulatory framework needs to be changed, to make phages quickly available, why is nothing happening now?! We need as many people as possible to lobby their MPs, especially those who have personal experience of relatives dying due to MRSA.
Why should people have to pay to have phage treatment in Georgia when we have dedicated doctors in the UK who, given reassurances by their peers that they would not be committing professional suicide by offering an alternative therapy when all else has failed, would be only too willing to learn the skills required.
The Helsinki Declaration states that when all current therapies have failed, doctors must inform patients of alternative therapies and treatments, something which is not hapening with MRSA patients in the UK. They are given further and stronger antibiotics until their gut flora is destroyed, allowing MRSA to colonise unopposed, due to antibiotics having killed most of the beneficial bacteria. Cases of Clostridium Difficile are rising monthly and yet the only people who have officially been to the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi are the MOD, presumably gathering phages for their anti-bacterialogical warfare games.
Constructive comments and offers of help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike Jozefiak