Shorter all-oral treatment plans for drug-resistant TB cheaper, more effective: ICMR study

It assessed the cost-effectiveness of the shorter bedaquiline-based regimens -- BPaL (bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid) and BPaLM (with moxifloxacin) -- in comparison with the nine-to-11-month and the 18-to 20-month-long bedaquiline-containing…

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Cipla Foundation, Tata IISc Med School to set up Centre for Pulmonary Medicine

It will also train pulmonologists and allied specialists, promote knowledge-sharing through workshops and global collaborations, and drive community programmes on early screening, air quality awareness, smoking cessation, and preventive lung…

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