MICROBES PROFIT AS NEW DRUGS STAGNATE

Life-threatening diseases are becoming more drug-resistant while the development of new drugs is stagnating, medical school scientists have warned. The Infectious Diseases Society of America published a list of six microbes for which it said doctors had "an inadequate medicine cabinet." The group also repeated a 2004 call for the US Congress to fund more drug research.

The Sydney Morning Herald (http://smh.com.au/news/world/microbes-profit-as-new-drugs-stagnate/2006/03/02/1141191792391.html)