10/29/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Senators Hatch and Bennet have introduced the PATH Act, S. 185, which would direct FDA to create this pathway for antibiotics."
"Such resistant infections are on the rise and threaten to become a public health crisis."
"Antibiotic resistance remains a serious patient safety, public health, and national security concern."
"This bill would allow FDA to approve these drugs on the basis of smaller amounts of data than it uses to approve other antibiotics."