Provisional guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describe FDA-approved and off-label uses of bedaquiline fumarate (Sirturo, Janssen Therapeutics) in populations with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WHO has announced that it is now recommending a shorter and less expensive treatment regimen for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tuberculosis killed 1.6 million people in 2017 — more than 4,000 each day. Among its deadly attributes, TB is ...

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Results from an observational study evaluating a new anti-TB drug have found that the treatment can improve outcomes and reduce mortality among patients with both MDR-TB and XDR-TB. Over the past two ...

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Unwise antibiotic use is contributing to hardier strains of the deadly disease. August 30, 2012— -- Tuberculosis is growing more resistant to treatment worldwide, according to a study released ...

Dhaka, Bangladesh – MDR-TB is Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis. As the name suggests it is much harder to treat than “regular” TB. There are several different kinds of “first line” drugs that can be ...

A new partnership announced today will increase efforts to coordinate the development of complementary novel tools to fight TB, including drug-resistant TB, and identify emerging drug resistance ...

The World Health Organization released the 2017 World Tuberculosis (TB) report this week. The conclusions are sobering. On the one hand, the report finds that global efforts to combat tuberculosis ...

There are 500,000 more cases of tuberculosis worldwide than previously estimated, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization. The WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2014 ...