Community October 24, 2011
Blumenthal holds press conference on antibiotics legislation at YNHH
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., recently held a press conference at Yale-New Haven Hospital to gain support for bipartisan legislation he has proposed in the U.S. Senate. Blumenthal’s legislation would make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to develop and bring to market new antibiotics that will fight increasingly antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are infecting Americans. He thanked the hospital’s president, Marna P. Borgstrom, for her leadership in helping him bring what he calls “an arms race with superbugs” to the attention of the public.
at the press conference, from left, are: Thomas Balcezak, MD, associate chief of staff and vice president, Performance Management; Senator Blumenthal; Marna P. Borgstrom, YNHH president and CEO; and Paul R. Skolnik, MD, chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center.
