21 Feb 2013
Below is a press release issued by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Among the authors of the article "The Stability of Malaria Elimination," published February 22 in Science, are CDDEP director Ramanan Laxminarayan and senior fellow David Smith.
15 Feb 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
8 Feb 2013
A roundup of news on drug resistance and other topics in global health.
4 Feb 2013
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a public hearing to
obtain input on the Limited Population Antimicrobial Drug (LPAD) approval pathway – a potential new mechanims to expedite the development of
drugs, including biological products, for serious or life-threatening
conditions that would address an unmet medical need. The drug’s safety
and effectiveness would be studied in a smaller subpopulation of
patients with more serious manifestations of a condition.
4 Feb 2013
Last week the Pew Charitable Trusts, a signatory on
Extending the Cure’s recent Joint
Statement on Antibiotic Resistance, hosted a one-day
conference titled “A New Pathway for Antibiotic
Innovation: Exploring Drug Development for Limited Populations.” The event
brought together leaders from go
