WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - February 26, 2016 21:00 - 9 minutes - 8.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It’s a life and death situation – the world is at its last line of defence against some pretty nasty bacteria and there are no new antibiotics. But it’s not the science that’s the big problem, it the economics. Despite the $40 billion market worldwide there’s no money to be made in antibiotics so big pharma have all but stopped their research. Why is this and how do we entice them back in? Wesley Stephenson finds out.
(Image: Computer artwork of bacteria - credit: Science Photo Library)