EMA ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE WORKSHOP DISCUSSES REDUCING ANTIBIOTIC USE, MAKING SMARTER DRUGS
November 3rd, 2013
ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the largest single health threat to the population of the world today is antimicrobial resistance (AMR). How can it be countered and what options are open to government regulators, the medical profession and, especially, the pharmaceutical companies for the development of new antibiotics? These issues were at the heart of a day-long workshop – ‘Best use of medicines legislation to bring new antibiotics to patients and combat the resistance problem’ - at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in London on ...
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