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Antibiotics Conference Addresses Lack of New Drugs to Fight Deadly Superbugs
Date:9/22/2011

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders from government, industry, academia, medicine and science today will come together to discuss one of the most pressing health challenges we face: 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," is organized by the Pew Health Group, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).

Each year, antibiotic-resistant infections claim tens of thousands of American lives and cost our health care system tens of billions of dollars.  Yet as resistant pathogens grow more prevalent, the pipeline of new antibiotics has slowed to a trickle, leaving physicians and their patients with few treatment options.

The conference will focus on three issues.  During the first session, speakers will discuss 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, speakers will explore ways we can overcome the scientific and regulatory challenges and the economic challenges, respectively, that hinder the development of new antibiotics.

"As drug-resistant bacteria rapidly emerge, the pace of antibiotic innovation has fallen dramatically," said Sharon Ladin, director of the Pew Health Group's Antibiotics and Innovation Project. "We hope today's conference will move us closer to developing new medicines we need most to fight the next generation of deadly superbugs."

"Unless we address this crisis now, we face a future more like the days before antibiotics were developed, a time when people died of common infections, and many of the medical advances we take for granted today—including surgery, chemotherapy, an
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