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47 articles related to "drug pipeline"
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The Need for New TB Tools
After decades of neglect, there has been a recent upswing of activity in the development of new drugs and diagnostic tests to treat tuberculosis (TB). However, while the situation may improve in a few...
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Arduous Treatment
TB can be cured, but it’s a long process Tuberculosis (TB) is curable, but it takes a minimum of six months on a cocktail of various antibiotics. The first-line treatment regimen has remained essentially...
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Cough Up for TB! Reports
Every day the medical teams of Médecins Sans Frontières come up against the obstacle of inadequate or ineffective tools needed to treat, detect or prevent disease – especially those...
Report – Last updated 12 November 2008
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What is a patent?
Below are four key concepts to help understand drug patents. 1. The rationale for patents Patents came about as a way to stimulate innovation. In order to encourage inventors to disclose their invention...
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What is Medical Innovation?
Every day, Médecins Sans Frontières teams throughout the world witness first-hand the human impact of the lack of good medical tools – drugs, diagnostics and vaccines - for many diseases. Far...
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Innovations in HIV/AIDS must reach people in the developing world
The last several years have brought the introduction of promising new antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) that have new ways of tackling HIV. At the same time, there are interesting innovations that are...
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PLoS: New Approaches in Filling the Gap in Tuberculosis Drug Discovery
For the first time in decades, there is a TB drug pipeline, but the paucity of candidates is still cause for alarm given the global emergence of drug-resistant TB. In this article, various strategies...
In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 08 November 2007
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HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries: the battle for long-term survival has just begun
Over three million people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world receive antiretroviral therapy (ART). However, the medicines and diagnostic tools available are inadequate to respond fully to...
Report – Last updated 19 July 2009
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TB background document: New Faces of an Old Disease
Many people in rich countries think of tuberculosis as a disease of the past. Indeed well into the 1980s, experts thought that tuberculosis (TB) could be eliminated in a matter of decades. TB was seemingly...
Report – Last updated 24 March 2009
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Cough Up For TB! The Underfunding of Research for Tuberculosis and Other Neglected Diseases by Germany
In their work in field projects, MSF staff can only do so much, they frequently lack sufficient treatment possibilities to address diseases that primarily affect people in developing countries. Because...
Report – Last updated 22 April 2008
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