Deccan Herald- January 18, 2020. The study, although small, reveals a major threat to the way doctors currently think about combination antibiotics, says Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington, DC, who was not involved in the work. “Our entire approach to antibiotics is going to have to be rethought,” says Laxminarayan, who is also a senior research scholar at Princeton University. “We can’t do this ‘give to everybody and kumbaya [approach],’ which is what we’re following now.”