Antibiotics Conference Focuses on New Antibiotics to Fight Drug-resistant Bacteria

The conference, 'Reviving the Pipeline of Life-Saving Antibiotics: Exploring Solutions to Spur Innovation', discussed drug-resistant bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics to fight them.

Leaders from government, industry, academia, medicine and science gathered yesterday to discuss the rising incidence of drug-resistant bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics to fight them. 

The conference, "Reviving the Pipeline of Life-Saving Antibiotics: Exploring Solutions to Spur Innovation", was organized by the Pew Health Group, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).

The conference focused on three issues.  During the first session, speakers discussed the nature of our unmet medical needs and which patients and diseases are becoming most difficult to treat because of drug resistance and the lack of new antibiotics.  During the second and third sessions, s