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| Tuberculosis has developed a growing resistance to the antibiotics used to combat it, and with fatal consequences Regulators in the United States have now approved a drug that can treat a drug-resistant strain of TB. It is the first new medication against TB to be registered for more than 40 years. Despite long-lasting side effects, it may be the lesser of two evils for people diagnosed with a potentially lethal form of TB. Al Jazeera's Dominic Kane reports. |
Thursday, 3 January 2013
TUBERCULOSIS: US approves Bedaquiline treatment for drug-resistant TB
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