Spain will now guarantee regional governments' payments to drugmakers in a bid to garner support for a plan to centralise drug purchases in the country and narrow the EU's swelling budget deficit, Bloomberg reported. The government is targeting savings of 400 million euros ($525 million) from the first batch of centralised purchases, which will include antibiotics in September, according to an unnamed senior official at the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.  For more details, go to http://www.firstwordpharma.com/node/1113220