Gaithersburg biotech firm saves man's leg

Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, a Gaithersburg biotech firm, is being credited with saving a man's leg from amputation. John Haverty of Minnesota was facing that dire prognosis after contracting superbug klebsiella pneumoniae following a knee implant, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. A phage organism supplied by APT, an experimental new treatment not approved by the Food and Drug Administration but allowed by the FDA as a "compassionate use of an unapproved therapy," successfully destroyed the superbug and saved Haverty's leg.

Incredible things are happening in Montgomery County's biotech sector, the lone bright spot in an otherwise-moribund county economy. This is also a good reminder of just how foolish our incompetent County Council sounded years ago when they claimed the FDA was an innovation agency - in fact, they are often blocking innovations from reaching the general public. APT is located at 22 Firstfield Road, near NIST. Fortunately, before their wiser predecessors were ousted from office by the MoCo cartel in 2002 and 2006, they had the foresight to boost biotech in the I-270 corridor.

A true medical miracle.