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TB: A Faster Pace in Progress Against the Wasting Disease

By William Looney | Published: June 11, 2012
Multidrug resistant [MDR] TB is the front line in the global battle against infectious disease. It accounts for more than 5 per cent of new cases of TB, which itself takes more than 2 million lives per year – a death toll second only to HIV.  More important, multidrug resistant TB is now found in [...]
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Industry Optimism for Advancing TB Research

By Guest Blogger | Published: March 21, 2012
Scientists optimistic new combination regimens will improve TB treatment and reduce drug resistance, writes Jill Wechsler, Pharm Exec’s Washington Editor. In honor of World TB Day March 24, research organizations and international health agencies announced important advances in the development of new therapies for stemming the spread of increasingly lethal tuberculosis strains. Each year, nearly 9 [...]
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TB Alliance Trumpets New, Improved Drugs at World Health Assembly

By Oriana Schwindt | Published: May 19, 2010
Like polio and leprosy, developed countries have long since tamed tuberculosis. But even now, other parts of the world continue to struggle against the disease, with nearly all (98 percent) of TB’s 1.7 million worldwide deaths occurring in developing countries. TB’s high comorbidity with HIV infections has recently added another level of urgency to efforts [...]
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