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Subgroup analyses based on HIV infection status found a strong protective effect of INH against TB among HIV-negative children (RR = 0.55, 95% CI 0.40, 0.75 p = 0.001), but no evidence of an ...

Now, the group is turning attention to Otsuka’s TB drug delamanid and its secondary patents, it said in a recent statement. Johnson & Johnson Sirturo bedaquiline Tuberculosis Pharma.

The way forward for new tuberculosis vaccines isn't clear, wrote editorialists Stephen M. Carpenter, MD, PhD, and W. Henry Boom, MD, both of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

A TB patient sleeps in his room inside Ward 16, where the drug-resistant tuberculosis patients are housed and treated, on August 5, 2019 at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg ...

Treating latent TB will prevent them from having active or secondary TB. Treatment for latent TB is quite different from that of active TB. So, you must be distinctively tested and detected.

Secondary end points included incident tuberculosis by week 72, death from any cause, any adverse event of grade 3 or higher between the start of the trial regimen and up to 30 days after the last ...

T he patent on the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline expires today (July 18). But while its manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, intends to use secondary patents to extend its exclusive right to sell the ...

From TB Tests to Leases, PA District Delays Enrolling Scores of Immigrant Kids. Story by Jo Napolitano • 1w. Lancaster, Pennsylvania . After surviving more than a decade in a Tanzanian refugee ...

The organization, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is calling on Johnson & Johnson to publicly commit to not enforcing secondary patents on tuberculosis med Sirturo in countries ...

For example, Tisile and fellow TB survivor Nandita Venkatesan filed a legal challenge against J&J in 2019 to prevent the company from enforcing its secondary patent over bedaquiline in India.

In two of the trials, INH prophylaxis was administered for a duration of less than six months, while in the other six it was administered for six months or longer. The duration of follow-up among ...