{"id":134372,"date":"2022-01-19T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/commentary-to-avoid-the-superbug-pandemic-we-must-fix-the-antibiotics-business"},"modified":"2022-01-19T21:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T05:22:34","slug":"commentary-to-avoid-the-superbug-pandemic-we-must-fix-the-antibiotics-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/commentary-to-avoid-the-superbug-pandemic-we-must-fix-the-antibiotics-business","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: To avoid the superbug pandemic, we must fix the antibiotics business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/commentary-to-avoid-the-superbug-pandemic-we-must-fix-the-antibiotics-business.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doctors must be careful when they consider treating their patients with the newest antibiotics, because every time these drugs are used, bacteria have a chance to build resistance. As a result, new antibiotics are generally used sparingly\u2013leaving antibiotic companies with little chance of selling enough doses to recoup their investment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If scientists don\u2019t discover new antibiotics soon, the world will eventually return to the pre-antibiotic era when simple cuts could kill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors must be careful when they consider treating their patients with the newest antibiotics, because every time these drugs are used, bacteria have a chance to build resistance. As a result, new antibiotics are generally used sparingly\u2013leaving antibiotic companies with little chance of selling enough doses to recoup their investment. If scientists don\u2019t discover new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}