Combining Blood Pressure Drug With Standard Antibiotics can Speed Up TB Treatment

Combining a drug, usually used in treating high blood pressure and headaches, with the standard, daily antibiotic regimen can help speed up treatment of tuberculosis in mice, a new study conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers reveals. Researchers say that if clinical trials starting later this year in India, a country heavily burdened by the highly contagious lung disease, prove successful, then the shortened treatment time with verapamil, a so-called calcium channel ...

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