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Researchers have identified two new drug families that block a key tuberculosis (TB) enzyme, offering hope for novel ...
The Puducherry administration is conducting enforcement raids on private drug retailers defying a ban on anti-TB drug sales.
The Puducherry administration is conducting joint raids on private chemists selling anti-TB drugs in violation of a ban.
New drugs that target "zombie" tuberculosis (TB) cells are now a step closer, thanks to a new study led by the University of ...
The FDA approved a new tuberculosis drug that improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases. Drug-resistant TB is a growing problem in many poor countries.
The Puducherry administration in alignment with the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme implemented the ban on the ...
Tuberculosis (TB) has affected humans for millennia — even the ancient Greeks searched for a cure. But no effective treatment for TB existed until the mid-1800s, when the sanatorium, or “open ...
Drug-resistant TB is placing huge burdens on the hospitals in Balti, the second-largest city in Moldova, says Veaceslav Batir, the head of the health department there. Patients stay for extremely ...
A TB patient sleeps in his room inside Ward 16, where the drug-resistant tuberculosis patients are housed and treated, on August 5, 2019 at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg ...
Image=KCDC Amid the increased possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) for care due to aging, a senior medication ...
Eradicating tuberculosis globally can’t happen without better TB drugs, and access to bedaquiline will help tremendously. But it’s not just about having medications that target the disease.
Complications. If the drugs you try first don’t work against your TB, you may have a drug-resistant form of the disease. Your doctor may recommend that you switch to so-called second-line drugs.