FDA approves The Medicines Co's acute skin infection drug

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FDA approves The Medicines Co's acute skin infection drug

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved The Medicines Co's single-dose intravenous drug to treat acute bacterial skin infections, the agency's third approval for the same condition this year. Drugmakers need to constantly devise new therapies to fight bacterial infections as patients build up resistance to older antibiotics. All the three drugs target acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), caused by the Gram positive strain of bacteria. These infections involve deep tissue or are associated with an underlying disease such as diabetes.  Medicines Co's treatment, Orbactiv, is in the same class of drugs as generic vancomycin, the standard-of-care for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a serious Gram-positive infection.

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