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FDA approves new drug for treatment-resistant forms of tuberculosis ...

The US Food and Drug Administration today approved Pretomanid Tablets in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid for the treatment of a specific type of ...

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients | STAT

US regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases.

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients | AP News

In a key study, the three-pill combo cured about 90% of patients with very drug-resistant TB, usually within 6 months. Patients also infected ...

FDA approves tuberculosis drug that works on hard-to-treat cases

Until now, the best option cured about two-thirds of patients, took 18 to 30 months, and required up to eight kinds of shots and pills. Many ...

FDA Approves New Treatment for Highly Drug-Resistant Forms of ...

FDA Approves New Treatment for Highly Drug-Resistant Forms of Tuberculosis · Pretomanid Tablets are not indicated for patients with: · Safety and ...

FDA approves another drug for drug-resistant TB but questions ...

A new treatment strategy has had astonishing success against extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB), which kills more than 70% of ...

FDA approves new drug for highly resistant tuberculosis - CIDRAP

"I think that the FDA's approval of pretomanid is an important step forward in the treatment of XDR-TB," he told CIDRAP News. "Patients with XDR ...

FDA approves drug for most deadly form of tuberculosis

(HealthDay)—A new drug has been approved as part of a powerful, three-pronged treatment regimen for the most deadly strain of tuberculosis, ...

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients | CBS 42

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, ...

FDA Approves New Pill for Drug-Resistant TB - WSJ

Pretomanid is only the third new TB drug to be approved by the FDA in more than 40 years, according to the TB Alliance. The group's aim in ...

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to treat patients

The Food and Drug Administration approved pretomanid (preh-TOH'-meh-nihd) for use with two other drugs for TB, which attacks the lungs. In ...

Bedaquiline: First FDA-approved tuberculosis drug in 40 years - PMC

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on 28 December 2012 granted accelerated approval to Johnson and Johnson's drug bedaquiline to treat resistant ...

FDA approves breakthrough drug to treat Extensively Drug ...

Pretomanid is only the third anti-TB drug approved by the FDA in more than 40 years. ... TB patients in the South Africa trials. In 1999 ...

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to-treat patients - Yahoo

U.S. regulators Wednesday approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, ...

FDA approves TB pill that cures more hard-to treat patients - WSPA

U.S. regulators have approved a new tuberculosis medicine that shortens and improves treatment for the hardest-to-treat cases, ...

After 40 years, new medicine for combating TB - PMC

On December 31, 2012, the FDA approved the first new tuberculosis drug in four decades. SIRTURO™ (bedaquiline) was approved on the basis of phase two ...

Provisional CDC Guidance for the Use of Pretomanid as part of a ...

Additionally, while the initial FDA approval for bedaquiline in 2012 for MDR TB included a treatment duration of 24 weeks, based on the Nix-TB ...

FDA approves effective new treatment for extremely drug-resistant ...

Current therapy for XDR tuberculosis requires up to 40 pills to be taken every day for up to 2 years, but still cures only 34% of these patients ...

A new treatment - Annual Report 2019 | TB Alliance

Pretomanid is only the third new anti-TB drug approved for use by FDA in more than 40 years, as well as the first to be developed and registered ...

Not-for-profit to launch antibiotic against drug-resistant tuberculosis

By the end of 2019, a new antibacterial drug, pretomanid, marketed by Mylan, will be available to treat people with the most serious multidrug- ...