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It's not capitalism that's the problem, it's the current regulations surrounding drug research. The FDA has set out hurdles for drug approval that make it very unattractive to discover new antibiotics. They are currently changing the way these drugs are reviewed to try and alleviate that (new endpoints, etc).



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