All pain, no GAIN: need for prudent antimicrobial use provisions to complement the GAIN Act

Authors

Kevin Outterson, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

ISSN

1524-1424

Publisher

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics

Language

en-US

Abstract

Once every five years, Congress re-authorizes funding for the FDA under PDUFA. In the current PDUFA legislation, Congress also addressed issues relating to antimicrobial resistance in the Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now (GAIN) Act. This short article critiques the absence of antimicrobial stewardship incentives in the GAIN Act, which is a serious error in the long-term struggle with pathogenic microbes.

Comments

Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-29

Recommended Citation

Kevin Outterson, All pain, no GAIN: need for prudent antimicrobial use provisions to complement the GAIN Act , 30 APUA Clinical Newsletter 13 (2012).
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