NIH superbug outbreak highlights lack of new antibiotics

NIH superbug outbreak highlights lack of new antibiotics - The Washington Post: "As doctors battled a deadly, drug-resistant superbug at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center last year, they turned to an antibiotic of last resort. But colistin, as it’s called, is not a fancy new creation of modern biotechnology. It was discovered in a beaker of fermenting bacteria in Japan — in 1949."