New study shows effectiveness of shorter TB treatment
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New study shows effectiveness of shorter TB treatment

Byangie vallejo

This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/new-study-shows-effectiveness-shorter-tb-treatment/ By Anne Gulland, global health security correspondent A new study provides vital evidence that a nine-month treatment regime for one of the more serious forms of tuberculosis is just as effective as the standard programme which can take up to two years. Patients with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) have to take a cocktail of toxic…

NHS pays pharmaceutical companies millions for drugs developed with taxpayers’ money

NHS pays pharmaceutical companies millions for drugs developed with taxpayers’ money

ByMatthew Betteridge

This article was taken from: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-pharmaceutical-companies-drugs-developed-taxpayer-money-global-justice-now-stop-aids-johnson-a8011716.html By: May Bulman Social Affairs Correspondent  Treatments for cancer, arthritis and MS among drugs that cost cash-strapped NHS more than £1bn last year, in what has been branded a ‘rip-off’ of British public The NHS is spending millions of pounds on medicines that were discovered with taxpayer-funded research, in what has been branded a “rip-off” by…