Pew, Drug Makers Urge Senators To Pass Antibiotic Incentives Package

A group of drug makers and other health care stakeholders wrote to Senate health and Finance committee leaders on Tuesday (Feb. 5) asking them to pass a package of incentives to boost antibiotic development, saying pharmaceutical companies and investors are losing interest in the field due to a lack of return on new product development. The 13 signatories include The Pew Charitable Trusts, Pfizer, Inc., Infectious Diseases Society of America, Merck and the Antimicrobials Working Group, which includes 14 pharmaceutical...