Take over pharma to create new medicines, says top adviser
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The problem is there is simply no money in it - any new drug would need to be cheap and used rarely to minimise the risk of resistance.Three years ago, Lord O'Neill proposed solutionsincluding giving pharmaceutical companies around a billion dollars for each novel antibiotic they developed. "But nearly three years after our review came out, there's endless talk but there's no progress in waking up the pharmaceutical industry to want to do this.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry said it was"hardly standing still" in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.
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