New antibiotics are in the works all the time. We are currently in an arms race with infections; I recall reading that new antibiotics are expected to last for only 10 years, and future antibiotics are going to last even less time (before resistance develops)
Why doesn't it get more press? I don't know for sure, but it is:
- Ongoing, which makes for bad news
- Kind of depressing, because we are slowly losing the battle
- Feels a little bit hopeless, because foolish choices by individuals accelerate the development of resistance, and inventing new antibiotics doesn't fix that fundamental problem