Is there an economic cure for the lack of new antibiotics?

Name: Is there an economic cure for the lack of new antibiotics?
Uploaded: 2017-08-04T22:00:00Z
Duration: P568S
Description: As drug-resistant infections proliferate, financial barriers are preventing the pharmaceutical industry from investing in new drugs to fight off superbugs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman, in a series of reports with science correspondent Miles O'Brien, explores how researchers could be incentivized to develop new antibiotics.

Clip: 08/04/2017 | 9m 28s | Video has closed captioning.

As drug-resistant infections proliferate, financial barriers are preventing the pharmaceutical industry from investing in new drugs to fight off superbugs. Economics correspondent Paul Solman, in a series of reports with science correspondent Miles O'Brien, explores how researchers could be incentivized to develop new antibiotics.

Aired: 08/04/17

Rating: NR

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Is there an economic cure for the lack of new antibiotics?

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