News about 'mdr'

7 Nov 2010
NC001 Today, the TB Alliance announced the first clinical trial to test multiple new TB drugs in combination; the trial is known as New Combination 1 (NC001).The experimental regimen undergoing testing in this trial consists of experimental TB drugs PA-824, Moxifloxacin, and Pyrazinamide, an...
8 Jul 2010
This post originally appeared on Voices of America news.com http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/health/Dual-Infections-Of-TB-And-AIDS-Make-Each-Harder-To-Treat-97817769.html TB patient in Lesotho Tuberculosis infects nearly ten million people each year and kills nearly two million. It is primarily...
12 May 2010
Dr. Gyanu Lamichhane is Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research Labs. This interview was conducted at JHU on November 13, 2009. The following bio is excerpted from this bio sketch (.pdf – 80kb) , which includes a list of...
29 Apr 2010
We first read this post at FierceBiotech.com . New drugs are needed to combat MDR-TB HAYWARD, Calif. and SHANGHAI, April 6 /PRNewswire/ — MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of antibiotics to treat drug-resistant bacteria, and Cumencor...
26 Apr 2010
This post originally appeared at http://www.news25.us/Global/story.asp?S=12380174 Purdue Chao Center Purdue drug maker closing its doors after 5 years Associated Press – April 27, 2010 4:14 AM ET WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) – An Indiana drug maker that’s North America’s sole manufacturer of a...
18 Mar 2010
World Health Organization 18 MARCH 2010 | GENEVA | WASHINGTON DC — In some areas of the world, one in four people with tuberculosis (TB) becomes ill with a form of the disease that can no longer be treated with standard drugs regimens, a World Health Organization (WHO) report says. For example, 28...
28 Feb 2010
Norma Muñoz Former MDR-TB Patient This video appeared on the Washington Post’s website . Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What’s worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.
14 Feb 2010
Last week, a story in the NY Times explored the emerging threat of drug-resistant TB spreading in the aftermath of the tragic earthquake in Haiti . On Sunday, Feb 14, the NY Times published in a letter to editor from Dr. Lee Reichman, MD, MPH (Professor and Executive Director, UMDNJ-New Jersey...

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