Tuberculosis (TB) is a deadly infection that occurs in every part of the world. The standard treatment for TB, a six-month multidrug regimen, has not changed in more than 40 years. Patients can find it difficult to complete the lengthy…
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An X-ray Like a Christmas Tree: One Refugee’s Mysterious Case
Mohammed Hassan arrived in Canada from a Kenyan refugee camp in September 2015, 46 years old and crippled by such pain that he walked like a man decades older. His pain had grown slowly. It began as stiffness in his…
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Celestone M
NOTICE: This Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) is intended for persons living in Australia. CELESTONE® M Betamethasone valerate Consumer Medicine Information What is in this leaflet This leaflet answers some common questions about Celestone M. It does not contain all the…
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Proposing a new drug to treat tuberculosis utilizing state-of-the-art computer simulations
The research team of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Toyohashi University of Technology and the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have proposed a new drug to treat…
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Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine
In July 1921, a French infant became the first person to receive an experimental vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), after the mother had died from the disease. The vaccine, known as Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), is the same one still used today….
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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: Patients should follow hand hygiene, cough etiquette
When those with lung TB, for instance, cough, sneeze or spit, the TB germs are released into the air, which in turn, could be inhaled by another person and infect him or her. “COVID-19 is highlighting just how vulnerable people…
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A new way to give an old tuberculosis vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys
What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people? It would help prevent the infection that kills more people every year than…
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