Stockwatch: New antibiotics: easy to say; hard to do
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Most of the contemporary challenges for the western world are easy to identify, but difficult to resolve. These include the pensions time-bomb, the obesity epidemic, the patent cliff, the European sovereign debt crisis and the lack of new antibiotics. While the European sovereign debt crisis lurched into a significantly worse position this week, two other announcements proposed remedies to two of these challenges.