Antibiotics - The Perfect Storm

We need new antibiotics to fight infections caused by resistant bacteria. But the marketplace, the structure of the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, and difficult science are conspiring to deny us the products we need. This blog will present perspectives and developments in the fight for new antibiotics.

Monday, October 26, 2020

The Pasteur Act - A View from Industry

Chris Burns Evan Loh We will continue our discussion of the Pasteur Act as proposed by Senators Bennet and Young. Today I discuss the bill...

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Introducing the Pasteur Act for AMR

WARNING - This is long! Today, I discuss the Pasteur Act, a new bill proposed in the US Senate by senators Bennet and...

Thursday, September 10, 2020

AMR and Europe - What Happened?

Like many of you, I recently received a notification from John Rex and Kevin Outterson regarding the fact that many recently approved ...

Thursday, September 3, 2020

Too Little is not Enough

Those of you who joined the recent AMR conference or who receive John Rex’s very useful emails or who follow his website AMR Solut...

Monday, August 24, 2020

Politics and the FDA

If you are one of those who believe that the FDA is purely guided by sc ience and that politics never has influenced its decisions or its ...

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Policy - Coronavirus vs AMR

The coronavirus pandemic is clearly an acute and immediate pubic health crisis. Within the space of just a few months, almost 20 million peo...

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Infection Control - Is Medicare Helping?

Back in 2015, the Harvard group published an extensive study on the effects of Medicare’s punitive non-payment system for hospital acquire...

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