The bacteria that cause tuberculosis harbor some natural resistance to fluoroquinolones, but biophysicists from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore may have discovered why that is and how to make the ...

Recently, after years of pressure, advocates including author and philanthropist John Green scored victory against Johnson & Johnson over a patent on a key tuberculosis drug. The campaigners hope the ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected in at ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health challenge, affecting millions each year. In 2023, an estimated 10.8 million people contracted TB, with 1.25 million deaths, according to the World Health ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis has signed a licensing deal to hand over its experimental tuberculosis (TB) drugs to the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, joining a growing Big Pharma retreat from ...

* Drugs could be used to fight dangerous forms of TB * Compounds already proven in humans By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, July 2 (Reuters) - Drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease show promise as a new ...

Patients who have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have a similar microbiological response to bedaquiline-based second-line medications as patients with drug-sensitive TB taking first-line regimens, ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's deadliest infectious disease—and one of the hardest to cure. Standard treatment requires a cocktail of multiple drugs over at least six months, and one in five ...

LONDON — Drug-resistant tuberculosis is spreading even faster than experts had feared, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday. The rate of TB patients infected with the drug-resistant strain ...

India investigates anti-dumping of tuberculosis drug from China and Thailand, impacting domestic industry and drug prices.

In recent years, many efforts have been undertaken to establish new methods for DST to be used on a routine level. The epidemiology of drug-resistant and MDR-TB has posed an enormous need for faster ...