Tag: Tb Treatment

London: Researchers have developed a new treatment that could be used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients with tuberculosis (TB). The study showed that the treatment, which patients will take using an inhaler, works by reducing the bacteria in the lungs causing tuberculosis while also helping the patient’s immune system to fight the disease. […]

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday rolled out the daily drug regimen for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), across all states. As per the new policy, the patients will be given fixed drug combinations (FDCs), three or four drugs in a single pill daily — being administered […]

New York: A new experimental antibiotic for tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be more effective against TB than Isoniazid, a decades old drug which is currently one of the standard treatment for the disease, finds a study on mice. The new drug, called AN12855, has several advantages over Isoniazid as Isoniazid requires conversion to […]