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...
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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...
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...