Researchers Developing Faster, Cheaper TB Drug

Researchers developing a next generation tuberculosis drug say they are getting good results with a combination treatment that promises to work faster and be cheaper than current medicines. In the latest in a series of tests, the new tuberculosis treatment, called PaMZ, outperformed current drugs, clearing twice as much TB bacteria from patients’ saliva. “So we’re saying that within two months of treatment, that this treatment could potentially be twice as effective, which we thought...

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