Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan Professor Anup Malani Professor David Howard
Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting a terrible price. Every day in the United States, approximately 172 men, women, and children die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals alone. Beyond those deaths,...
Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sust...
