A medicine stock-out is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “any time when, at a defined moment in a given inventory, a needed medicine item is not in stock and orders or prescriptions ...

After 10 months of antituberculosis therapy, the patient was symptom free and his skin lesions had all been replaced by hyperpigmented scar tissue. (Enlarge Image) Figure 5.

At the Health Protection Agency National Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory (HPA NMRL) between January 2008 and December 2009, we evaluated in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB; ...

Medicines affected. Most of the papers I surveyed dealt with the general problem of overstocking,, but some considered specific groups of drugs, particularly anaesthetics,8 antibiotics,9 10 ...

Citation: Han X, Sun J, Gao Y, Yan H, He X, Ma Y, Xu P, Ding N, Zhang X, Ren M, Jiang T, Zhang T and Su B (2025) A nomogram for predicting unfavorable outcomes of antituberculosis treatment among ...

The resurgence of tuberculosis (TB), the incidence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), and the coinfection between TB and HIV have led to serious infections, high mortality, ...

In the open-label clinical trial reported here, BDQ4LEP (Pan African Clinical Trials Registry number, PACTR202408643515316), we assessed the bactericidal activity of bedaquiline in 30 patients ...

Taking your birth control pill at the same time every day may help reduce side effects. This is because your hormone levels remain steady. If you take a pill early one morning and then take one ...

Introduction. Chronic liver diseases refer to a progressive deterioration of liver functions over six months. The major etiologies of chronic liver disease are genetic defect, toxin ingestion, ...

RufO is a unique cytochrome P450 enzyme (CYP) involved in the biosynthesis of rufomycin, an antituberculosis cyclic peptide featuring an unusual nitrated tyrosine. Recent studies have clarified RufO’s ...