Thursday, July 3, 2014

New Approach for Tuberculosis Treatment

Consumption was one of the worst known diseases of the 18th century. Thanks to medical advances, the number of deaths from this lung disease - tuberculosis - has declined significantly. Efforts to eradicate the disease in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in a wide range of new drugs entering the market. And yet 1.4 million people still continue to die each year from tuberculosis. Multidrug-resistant strains of the disease-causing pathogen are especially ...

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