Earlier this week, Johnson & Johnson announced a reduction in the price for bedaquiline in low- and middle-income countries, as part of a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility (GDF). The immediate change in price will make bedaquiline available through the GDF at the...
News about 'TB Drugs'
27 Feb 2020
ERA4TB, or European Accelerator of Tuberculosis Regime, is a public-private initiative devoted to accelerate the development of new treatmen regimens for Tuberculosis. This project integrates more than thirty organizations from the European Union and the United States among which are the main...
14 Aug 2019
FDA released the following press release on Wednesday, August 14th: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Pretomanid Tablets in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid for the treatment of a specific type of highly treatment-resistant tuberculosis (TB) of the lungs. “The threat of...
27 Jun 2019
-- Globe Newswire reported on June 20th -- Spero Therapeutics, Inc. , a multi-asset clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing treatments in high unmet need areas involving multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections and rare diseases, today...
12 Mar 2019
On March 8th, TB Alliance announced its novel compound, Pretomanid, is currently being reviewed by the FDA for use against Tuberculosis. TB Alliance's press release can be found below: NEW YORK, NY (March 8, 2019)—TB Alliance’s new drug application (NDA) for the novel tuberculosis (TB) drug...
29 Nov 2018
On December 6, 2018, at 7AM EST, TREAT TB will host a capacity building webinar on community engagement in MDR-TB clinical trials. It will feature a presentation from Ezio Tavora dos Santos Filho, STREAM Community Engagement Coordinator from REDE-TB , followed by a question and answer session. The...
2 Oct 2018
The first ever U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting (UNHLM) on tuberculosis took place on Wednesday, September 26 in New York City. The U.N. delegation of countries agreed to ambitious targets including a commitment to finding 40 million undiagnosed cases of TB by the end of 2022 and...
16 Nov 2017
Ending Tuberculosis Starts in Moscow (Op-ed) A meeting of the world’s health ministers in Moscow this week could prove to be a pivotal moment on the road to ending tuberculosis Nov 16, 2017 By José Luis Castro and Michel Kazatchkine A meeting of the world’s health ministers in Moscow this week...
9 Aug 2017
The United States Food and Drug Administration held a public workshop regarding scientific and clinical trial design considerations for development of new tuberculosis drug regimens. This public workshop was intended to provide information for and gain perspective pertaining to development efforts...
4 May 2017
Spero Therapeutics Receives Grant from National Institutes of Health to Explore Novel Treatment Combinations for Tuberculosis CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 4, 2017—Spero Therapeutics, LLC, a biopharmaceutical company founded to develop novel therapies for the treatment of bacterial infections, today...
11 Apr 2017
Scientist at Rutgers University and their collaborators have published an article in Molecular Cell illustrating the three-dimensional structure of the drug target for the drug rifampicin. The abstract for the article is below. TITLE: Structural Basis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transcription and...
22 Mar 2017
March 21, 2017 Infectex Announces Positive Phase 2b-3 Clinical Trial Results of SQ109 for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pulmonary Tuberculosis Moscow, Russia and Rockville, MD, USA -- Infectex Ltd., a Russian portfolio company of Maxwell Biotech Venture Fund (MBVF), today announced positive...