Superbugs, antibiotic resistance get renewed scrutiny in Congress
At a Senate subcommittee hearing Tuesday, members discussed reforms that might address the economic challenges of antibiotic drug development.
Melanie Lawrence doesn’t think she’ll live long enough to see her son graduate college.
Lawrence, a patient with cystic fibrosis from Massachusetts, has been on antibiotics almost her whole life. Throughout her childhood and early teenage years, the antibiotics were “highly effective,” but with Lawrence now in her 40s, “the bacteria in my lungs are resistant to nearly all antibiotics,” she told the Senate HELP subcommittee on primary health & retirement security at a hearing on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Tuesday.
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