"The disaster of the last decade of FDA regulation of antibiotic development..."

From David Shlaes' blog on antibiotics: "We explore the disaster of the last decade of FDA regulation of antibiotic development, the recent record of FDA antibiotic approvals and the state of antibiotic resistance in the US. In short, the FDA now realizes that their oversight of antibiotic development over the last 10-15 years has, in part, led to a dangerously thin pipeline of new antibiotics."

One might think that this would be a big issue in DC. 

Here's an earlier chart illustrating the dire situation: