Patient Stories: Tuberculosis in Tajikistan
Patient Stories: Tuberculosis in Tajikistan
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Many children have difficulty coughing up sputum for analysis, but Zafar was able to produce enough and was diagnosed with MDR-TB. Zafar's treatment is progressing well. He is putting on weight and tolerating the drugs, although he has experienced some …
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Punjab's struggle with drugs
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At least 5,000 drug addicts undergo treatment every year at the 51 rehabilitation centres across the state. Amanjeet Singh, president of the Punjab State Drug Counselling and Rehabilitation Centres Union, says,”The number of addicts admitted in each …
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Ask Dr. H: Drugs lengthening lives in HIV cases
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In 1986, AZT (Zidovudine) became the first drug available to treat HIV. Unfortunately, it wasn't effective enough in combating the AIDS virus. In 1995, a 25-year-old man diagnosed with AIDS had a life expectancy of just three years. In 1996, we began …
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Isis Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 1b/2a Study Of ISIS-SMNRx In Patients …
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The encouraging safety data from this program and our preclinical and clinical experience in other neurodegenerative diseases support the broadening of our efforts to develop antisense drugs to treat a number of severe neurodegenerative diseases …
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