Items tagged with Treatment
“When treatment is more challenging than the disease”: a qualitative study of MDR-TB patient retention (post)
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Association between directly observed therapy and treatment outcomes in MDR-TB: a systematic review and meta-analysis (post)
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Long-term Sirturo therapy safe, effective against MDR-TB (post)
Data presented at ECCMID 2016 showed that a 24-week or longer regimen of Sirturo was well-tolerated and effective against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Children with tuberculosis in India suffer on lack of proper fixed-dose combinations (post)
Since 2010, evidence is emerging that doses to treat TB earlier thought to be optimal are less than what a child’s body needs, doctors say
India: WHO's shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant TB, city may not gain (post)
Mumbai, 13 May 2016: On Thursday , the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave its nod for an affordable drug combination that cuts down time needed to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis from 24 months to around nine months.
Fixed-dose combinations of drugs versus single-drug formulations for treating pulmonary TB (post)
A research team from Spain has prepared a Cochrane systematic review that explores the efficacy, safety, and adherence to fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) of drugs versus single-drug formulations to treat people who are newly diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB).
India: TB patients protest outside health ministry, promised proper drug regimes from July (post)
May 20, 2016 - A group of tuberculosis patients, protesting outside the Union health ministry in Delhi's searing mid-May heat, brought attention to the problem of India's outdated tuberculosis treatment, and forced the ministry officials to give assurance to provide patients with the fixed-dose combination (FDCs) medicines they urgently need.
Mumbai: Hope for multidrug-resistant TB patients (post)
Such patients will be getting treated with bedaquiline drug and their samples have been sent for testing to ensure that they are physically fit to be administered with the drug.
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