Hollywood Medicine

What drives medical research? Guess what? It's not reasoned public health concerns.

[A]ll of the recorded worldwide recorded deaths from Ebola, SARS, and avian flu to date combined — 2,621 — are fewer than the number of Americans who die of MRSA every two months. MRSA also annually kills more Americans than AIDS, yet the federal AIDS research budget is over 13 times larger than that for the whole field of antimicrobial resistance.

I guess we'll have to wait for a movie, a book, or some liberal approved victim group to complain.