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Tag: Drugs (Pharmaceuticals)

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China Eases Rules on Cheap Drug Imports to Fight Chronic Diseases

August 27, 2019August 27, 2019SUI-LEE WEEComments Off on China Eases Rules on Cheap Drug Imports to Fight Chronic Diseases

The revised law would reduce penalties for buying generic pharmaceuticals from other countries without waiting for approval, though details are scant.

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This Daily Pill Cut Heart Attacks by Half. Why Isn’t Everyone Getting It?

August 22, 2019August 23, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on This Daily Pill Cut Heart Attacks by Half. Why Isn’t Everyone Getting It?

“Polypills” of generic drugs may dramatically reduce heart attacks and strokes in poor countries, a new study suggests. Some experts still aren’t enthusiastic.

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Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

August 14, 2019August 15, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis

Once, a diagnosis of extensively drug-resistant TB meant quick death. A three-drug regimen cures most patients in just months.

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Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

August 6, 2019August 7, 2019Roni Caryn RabinComments Off on Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?

Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market.

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Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring Them

June 24, 2019June 25, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Drug Companies Are Focusing on the Poor After Decades of Ignoring Them

The pharmaceutical industry once sued to keep AIDS drugs from dying Africans. Now companies boast of their efforts to get medicines to the developing world.

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Global Health: Gilead Will Donate Truvada to U.S. for H.I.V. Prevention

May 9, 2019May 10, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: Gilead Will Donate Truvada to U.S. for H.I.V. Prevention

The manufacturer will provide enough of the drug to supply 200,000 patients annually for more than a decade. Critics said it would not be enough to end the AIDS epidemic and questioned the company’s motives.

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Shrimp From 5 U.K. Rivers Have One Thing in Common: Cocaine

May 3, 2019May 3, 2019PALKO KARASZComments Off on Shrimp From 5 U.K. Rivers Have One Thing in Common: Cocaine

A new study of chemicals in river wildlife found pesticides in many of its samples, and cocaine in all of them. The drug’s source remained a mystery.

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U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

April 29, 2019April 30, 2019ANDREW JACOBSComments Off on U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

A new report says the overuse of antimicrobial drugs in humans, animals and plants is fueling resistant pathogens that could kill 10 million people annually by 2050.

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deadly germs, Lost cures: In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections

April 7, 2019April 8, 2019ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTELComments Off on deadly germs, Lost cures: In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections

Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.

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Global Health: Bit by Bit, Scientists Gain Ground on AIDS

March 8, 2019March 9, 2019DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.Comments Off on Global Health: Bit by Bit, Scientists Gain Ground on AIDS

The “London patient,” apparently cured of H.I.V. infection, has gotten all the attention. But other recently revealed advances are more likely to affect the immediate course of the AIDS epidemic.

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