Big Blow: JnJ loses patent battle of key tuberculosis drug Bedaquiline in India Farhat Nasim24 March 2023 2:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: As the world observes TB day, leading pharma giant Johnson and Johnson (JnJ) has faced a major blow as the Indian Patent Office on Thursday...
TRUNCATE-TB trial: Shorter Eight-week drug regimen shows promise Medha Baranwal25 Feb 2023 9:30 AM ISTSingapore: Findings from a randomized trial have shown that a strategy involving initial treatment with an 8-week regimen of high bedaquiline and...
24-week regimen of bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin bests standard-care treatment for rifampin-resistant tuberculosis Medha Baranwal22 Dec 2022 8:00 AM ISTStandard-care treatment was similarly efficacious when patients could receive it without adverse effects, according to findings from a two-stage,...
WHO releases new guidelines management of TB in kids: Check out recommendations summary Dr Akriti22 March 2022 10:30 PM ISTIncorporating new evidence on the treatment of Tuberculosis(TB), World Health Organisation (WHO) releases updated guidance on the management of...
Binding iron improves the effect of anti-TB drug Bedaquiline, find researchers Hina Zahid25 March 2021 10:30 AM ISTAlthough Tuberculosis, or TB, killed nearly as many people as COVID-19 (approx. 1.8 million) in 2020, it did not receive as much media and public...
What Steps Government has taken for Tuberculosis Eradication: Health Minster informs Medical Dialogues Bureau10 Feb 2019 9:30 AM ISTNew Delhi: Through a recent reply to the question raised in Rajya Sabha, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed about the Tuberculosis...
Drug to treat MDRTB to be made available across the country: Government savita thakur thakur12 April 2017 1:06 PM ISTNEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to expand the availability of Bedaquiline, a drug used for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis, across the...
Conditional Access to Bedaquiline in 6 institutes under New TB regime savita thakur thakur20 March 2017 12:49 PM ISTUnder the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), daily regimen for drug sensitive TB is implemented across the country for TB-HIV...
Cannot give new TB drug to patient without more tests: LRS Hospital to Delhi High Court savita thakur thakur10 Jan 2017 12:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: A city-based TB hospital told the Delhi High Court that if the new TB medicine by Johnson and Johnson is given to a patient suffering from...
Bedaquiline : Maybe Miracle Drug for MDR TB, but not to be used casually savita thakur thakur24 March 2016 10:29 AM ISTNew Delhi: The government has recently launched Bedaquiline, an exclusive drug to tackle drug resistant TB cases in the country, among several other...
